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

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I posted detailed advice here

Doing an AMA using Discourse

Yes, I did one here at https://community.hackernoon.com/t/x/1800 and I have three sets of advice depending on who is asking: For participants Post the following guidelines early in the topic (either in the first post or the first reply) for people to follow: Please only ask one question by replying to this topic a single time, using the blue Reply button at the bottom. It’s also helpful to scroll to the bottom while reading the topic to make sure nobody else has asked the same…

The main feature req here is still to reject topic owner replies when they do not quote the post they are replying to. That is the absolute of death here, if the AMA / Q&A subject doesn’t do that, it will be disastrous.

Some other bonus stuff we could do:

• Temporarily grant the topic owner more rights to moderate their topic during the Q&A.

• Highlight the topic owner replies more than we usually do to make them stand out more.

• Prevent people from replying more than once to the topic – since they should ask one “question” and no followups.

• Prevent people from directly replying to any posts in the topic, because they should only reply to the topic itself.

• Automatically expand “in reply to” at the bottom of replies. (Though this still leaves you unable to press the like button on the replies which I don’t… er… like.)