Proposition - Steemit QA
Now that Steem has gotten off the ground, there is a use case that I would like to see implemented. The best part is that it can be done, right now, without any additional features! All we need is to agree on a standard as a community which I propose below. Most anyone that has done any amount of programming knows of stackoverflow.com. Nearly all of the world's textbooks on computer programming can be found in some form or another on Stackoverflow in the from of Question and Answer style posts.
For those that aren't familiar, go check it out. The site has expanded to various topics on the Stack Exchange network. A user has a question and others can give answers. Experts vote up correct answers, and the result is usually a simple question and best answer.
Why not use Steemit for this? I propose the use a new qa tag for all question and answer posts. For a particular topic use qa-topic. For example, if I had a programming question on javascript I would tag my post qa qa-programming qa-javascript. Users can peruse the qa tags they have expertise in and answer other user's questions. The best part is, you can get paid to be helpful! Users that might not be the best writers might have tremendous technical expertise, and this use case would help them be able to get in on earning Steem Power for their content as well.
I think some of the same rules as Stack Exchange should apply. Don't plagiarize. Search for questions before you post. No homework questions. This is a way for us to help each other succeed, not cheat.
I think qa-programming, qa-steem, and qa-photography would be good communities to start with.
What do you think?
Hi @proskynneo!
Could you contact with me on steemit.chat (https://steemit.chat/direct/noisy)?
I have few different proposals about implementing Q&A on blockchain. Conceptually I've worked on it more than a half of a year. I would like to share share my thoughts about it with you :)
It might be worth considering implementing changes however in order to address some of the issues that grew out of Stack Exchange. Quick, obscure, and unhelpful responses unfortunately can garner larger votes than the well researched and thought out answers.
Further a reward system for returning and providing the solution would be fantastic as too many questions are answered, but not publicly and thus provide little benefit to users further down the line who run into the same problem.
As a proof of concept I love this idea and believe it has a lot of merit, hopefully if it takes off some sort of system can be put in place to address these concerns and provide a much better platform to help people.
I don't think you are appreciating the complexity of the reward, incentive and moderation, curation system in Stack Exchange. It's really non-trivial. It's not a simple thread structure, it's a delicate balance.
But since it's already developed, why not use the open source code of Stack Exchange and implement a third party app on top of Steem? That would be way more feasible them trying to do technical q&a inside Steemit.
I think applications like this will take off as soon as the core dev team clarify what opportunities there are for revenue generation for the application itself. Without that clarification nobody serious will invest time into building other applications on top of Steem because the competition is too steep for another Freemium company.
A good idea, but i think as soon as the steemwiki is up, posts about steem should not be )
Good idea with some tricky points. But maybe it could possibly manage to take hold in some category with the right community and users.
Great idea. That will help to find things.
Great idea lets do it!
After payouts posts can not be edited so some of them will fall out of date with no way to fix them.
Your suggestion actually goes deeper than just QA. I was thinking the other day that one of the problems of Steemit is the fact that it only presents one view of the content, a stream of general stuff.
What makes Reddit and other networks really interesting is the fact that you can subscribe to your fave categories, and so follow only stuff you are interested in. So rather than using just a tag, why not implement a full blown sub system, where folks can subscribe to their custom feeds of topics they like?
Or am I missing something?
what a coincidence. i just used this in a post yesterday