(My personal opinion, not trying to speak for Sam or JP.)
People have scraped public Forum data before, and the results have been interesting and informative to readers. As long as the scraping only pulls information someone could find by other means, I find it hard to imagine a scenario where it would be problematic.
Is there an “API” for this forum, in order to access comments, posts and meta data?
If not, what is your perspective about scraping (purposes of performing analysis, extracting content, or use in other ways that might be “near-EA”)?
Answers can be operational, personal opinion, legal, etc.
(My personal opinion, not trying to speak for Sam or JP.)
People have scraped public Forum data before, and the results have been interesting and informative to readers. As long as the scraping only pulls information someone could find by other means, I find it hard to imagine a scenario where it would be problematic.
Here’s info on an API you can use to extract data.