This post is already a bit old, but I've created a discussion board to see if people are interested in such solutions. Check out the [intro post](https://steemit.com/steemdev/@aley/steemstack-net-a-discussion-board-build-on-top-of-the-steem-blockchain)

I was thinking the same thing. Steemit can offer real dollars to people with the answers instead of Karma/points.

Here's some more info on getting everyone together.
https://steemit.com/ohnoanewupdate/@bola/developers-programmers-will-flock-steemit

We need MathJax integration if we want to be a real competitor.

Here's a [multiple choice](https://steemit.com/trending/multiplechoice) substeemit I made a few days back for Q&A: [machine learning question](https://steemit.com/multiplechoice/@jcweiss/machine-learning-probability-model-question) | [answer](https://steemit.com/multiplechoice/@jcweiss/machine-learning-probability-model-answser)

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!

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-help` or `docker-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.

I had the exact same thoughts as you. Stack Overflow merged with Steemit is a perfect marriage. Now that steemit is open source it will be a lot easier to make it happen as a good foundation is already available.

You gonna code it? :)
I'll join ya

Good post! I like it! Good Luck To You!

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??

I agree.  I wrote about it here.  https://steemit.com/bugs/@pairmike/steemit-for-it-professionals-post-your-bugs-and-resolutions

Some progreses are needed in steemit like other platform.
Your sugestion might be very helpful.
I think cool idea

Love this idea. I can see it adding real value to the site. Everyone has problems (technical or otherwise) that they need solved.

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 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.

I've had the same thought, and would like to see SteemIt integrated into Stackoverflow. Maybe you can join [the discussion on that end](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/281232/615422).