Steemit needs to become the successor to Stack Overflow
I has occurred to me that this is the perfect platform for a Stack Overflow Q&A style site. As a programmer that site is invaluable to me, and people merely participate for on-site reputation, and/or the understanding that they will need to use the same resource themselves when they have a question. But what if everyone was making money while helping each other out with technical problems in their field?
People have complained that lucky memes are earning some folks hundreds and even thousands of dollars. I see no need to tear down the success of others, but wouldn't it be so much better to see people making hundreds or thousands of dollars because they found that JavaScript bug that was frustrating the hell out people? This would be an excellent opportunity to not only encourage new questions on this site, but also reward commenters just as much as posters.
Of course SO isn't the only site with this style. There are other Q&A sites for different subjects, and of course Quora, a general site. We need to build the same functionality here. So the question, and the point of my post, is how? Can it simply be done with tagging? Is it enough to start with #programming and then add more specific tags? I think we need to work on forming a community standard on how to search for Q&A style content, thus building a framework for these subgroups. For example, we could make a standard where we add '-help' to tags for the relevant subgroups, like #programming-help or #business-help - maybe #general-help for Quora-style free for all.
What are your suggestions? Leave them in the comments and lets upvote the best strategies for building a community standard.
We need MathJax integration if we want to be a real competitor.
That would be perfect for people helping each other in academia and certain professions. Although it seems that what Steemit really needs is a few basic social media features that are glaringly absent. There's no intuitive system for creating or browsing the equivalent of subreddits or facebook groups. That alone could make this process a lot easier.
I agree. Tagging works partially, but a dedicated landing page beyond "/trending/<substeemit>" would be nice.
Wow, this is an amazing idea.
Questions (as posts) and Answers (as comments) would both be able to receive votes, generating steem for those providing worthwhile content. It would reward everyone involved, and with steem power, those that provide great content would have their opinion weighted more just by how steem works.
Going even further - an enterprising developer could build a website based based on this idea and the steem blockchain. It would be designed to only display posts with specific tags, maybe tags like you mentioned above, matching
/-help$/. That new website could be used as the interface for asking (posting to the blockchain) and answering (commenting on the posts) and automatically tagging posts in the proper categories.Imagine you login to this website and click "ask question". It gives you a dropdown, prefilled with programming languages and technologies. Each one of these entries displays a human readable name of a technology, and behind it, it's value is something like
mysql-helpordocker-help. The user picks the dropdown that says "Docker", then fills in a summary of the question (title) and the full question with examples (body). They hit submit and it submits the question to the steem blockchain.Having content in a blockchain blows my mind. I've been building content systems for the past decade or so, and never have I seen anything quite like steem. It's incredible.
You've got my upvote.
Still feels like a "hacky" solution. Good for now, but in the future I like to see a steem API used on stackoverflow itself and on many more other sites! There simply can't be a "one that fits all" type of steemit platform.
Some progreses are needed in steemit like other platform.
Your sugestion might be very helpful.
I think cool idea
Here's a multiple choice substeemit I made a few days back for Q&A: machine learning question | answer
It would be easy to write a script+webapp to do the question and answer all in one page and schedule the posts. Take a look and leave me comments on making it better!
Explanation here
Interesting. Its almost tempting to make a 3rd party web app like you're describing, but I wonder if it will become obsolete once the development team adds more features to Steemit? I have a feeling its inevitable anyway.
steemit is besides that hype a mess, its totaly unstructered nd things are hrd to find let alone browsing here sucks ass and besides makeup tutorials and introduction videos with not much content steemit has nothing to offer, let alone that fact this steemit isnt even decentralized so who stops youtube, facebook or twiter to run their own version of steemit??
Love this idea. I can see it adding real value to the site. Everyone has problems (technical or otherwise) that they need solved.
Good post! I like it! Good Luck To You!
Had the same thought yesterday. Went looking for a programming tag and didn't find one. I like the idea of #topic-help, makes it clear it's intended to be a Q&A style.
That said, a syntax highlighter would be a great addition for posting snippets of code.
I was thinking the same thing. Steemit can offer real dollars to people with the answers instead of Karma/points.
I use stack overflow (and their sub sites) quite a bit... and if steemit implemented the same kind of functionality, coming here would be a no-brainer. Helping out other people and getting paid to do so? Talk about a stolen market overnight.
That being said, at the current time they probably have larger fish to fry (groups or pages, notifications/messaging, etc.) if they want to start pulling people in from a mainstream audience.