# Question Answer Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** deprecated
**Created:** [January 19, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032 "2017-01-19T16:43:47Z")
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### Author: ![angus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/angus/32/341715_2.png) [@angus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/angus)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/1 "2017-01-19T16:43:47Z")

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> 📣 This plugin is now retired in favour of the official [Discourse Post Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-voting/227808) plugin

Question Answer plugin that allows you to create topics in a similar QA style used by Stack Overflow.

 ![Screen Shot 2020-02-04 at 5.13.38 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/9/591616635e26dba09c29f106800d51b9a17d2d01.png)

[📄 Get the code](https://github.com/paviliondev/discourse-question-answer)

[🖥 See an example](https://try.thepavilion.io/c/qa/)

[🙋‍♀️ Request a feature](https://thepavilion.io/w/feature-request)

[🐛 Report a bug](https://thepavilion.io/w/bug-report)

### Of note 📝

- Up-votes, but no down-votes (yet)

- The first post of the topic cannot be voted on (yet). Adding this would raise some overlap with [Discourse Feature Voting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-feature-voting/40121).

- Subsequent posts can be up-voted. One vote per user per topic.

- Posts are arranged, first by the number of votes they have received, then by the date they were posted.

- Here’s where this plugin fits into the array of similar plugins and features available in Discourse:

## How to safely install or update when using our plugins:

### Pavilion’s update schedule and support policy

This plugin is one of the Pavilion family of open source plugins.

Pavilion will focuses on ensuring compatibility of a core set of its plugins with Discourse Core `tests-passed` branch _during the first 5 days of every month_ only.

Any bugs which arise because of an incompatibility will be addressed asap during this ‘supported period’, preferably by the 7th day. Low severity or Beta feature bugs may not be addressed by this date, but obvious things which are ‘breaking’ a forum should be resolved.

If you’ve not used the plugin before, it is safer to adopt it within the support window, so add it and rebuild your site within the first five days of any month, otherwise it’s possible you may be introducing an incompatibility and we might not be around to help.

More about this policy here: [Pavilion](https://thepavilion.io/t/pavilions-support-policy-and-schedule/3312?u=merefield)

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