# 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: ![supernaturally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@supernaturally](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supernaturally)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 6:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/question-answer-plugin/56032/63 "2018-02-01T06:36:27Z")

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@angus Great plugin! I really like the UI of embedding replies - it would be good fun to see if we could work out some UI changes to mimic the [discussion format at Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/c/sp-society-camera-model-identification/discussion/47475). In regards to the concept of threaded replies - are there any scalability limitations or issues that your plugin introduces to our discourse instance? I’ve been following the threaded replies discussion, and there are a number of posts that express concerns in modifying the post stream.

> [@Plugin: Ask me anything or Q&A format (threaded replies)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-ask-me-anything-or-q-a-format-threaded-replies/44950/4):
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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. Pret…

Just curious if this plugin will introduce any potential conflicts to the ‘massive assumptions’ mentioned above (scalability, compatibility with future core updates, etc.)

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