# Plugin: Ask me anything or Q&A format (threaded replies)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-ask-me-anything-or-q-a-format-threaded-replies/44950
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** rfc
**Created:** [5월 28, 2016, 5:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-ask-me-anything-or-q-a-format-threaded-replies/44950 "2016-05-28T17:39:59Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [5월 28, 2016, 7:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-ask-me-anything-or-q-a-format-threaded-replies/44950/4 "2016-05-28T19:12:39Z")

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Not sure you are hearing me – **_any_ change to post stream is 10/10 in engineering difficulty** due to the massive numbers of assumptions we’ve made about it being in perfect chronological order since 2013.

Another reason I don’t like this proposal, on top of the extreme difficulty, is that **there is a very simple workaround** – simply force a full quote on every reply.

So

> Halo 4 for the gameplay itself.

Becomes

> > guy asked  
> > What’s your favorite halo game?
> 
> Halo 4 for the gameplay itself.

Pretty much automatically.

What you’re seeing there in that Q&A is very bad Q&A topic discipline. But enforcing Q&A topic discipline is easy; every time reply is pressed, **do a mandatory full quote and block saving the reply (e.g. reject the reply as an error) if a quote is not present.**

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