# Thoughts on a plugin which turns discourse into stackoverflow

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-a-plugin-which-turns-discourse-into-stackoverflow/20763>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [October 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-a-plugin-which-turns-discourse-into-stackoverflow/20763 "2014-10-04T16:40:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![dcohen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c67d28/32.png) [@dcohen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dcohen)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thoughts-on-a-plugin-which-turns-discourse-into-stackoverflow/20763/1 "2014-10-04T16:40:55Z")

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I know I know discourse is not a Q&A platform, and you might not believe in negative votes, etc, as mentioned in other posts. This is not a question about the _philosophy_, it is a _technical_ question, so please proceed with technical answers.

I think a forum platform like discourse, and a Q&A platform like SO have a lot in common. On the other hand, despite many tries, a polished, high quality, open source clone of SO with a large community and high momentum like discourse does not yet exist. So I was wondering how easy, or difficult, would it be to create a plugin that would convert discourse into stackoverflow?

Would this imaginary plugin be something ‘hacky’ that only would work as a prototype, or would be reliable enough for production?

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