Stack Overflow Post-Mortem

This is my final report for CSC 369: Introduction to Distributed Computing at Cal Poly. Introduction N ow that Stack Overflow (SO, or just “Stack”) is dead, it is time to perform an autopsy. Stack was infamous for being an impenetrable forum, filled with–to keep it PG–obnoxious people who were often technically correct and reveled in proving it. Constantly. So how did Stack’s culture and community…