Community-Website [Discussion] Implementation of Q&A Section in Website

Feature Request -

[ ] To have a Q&A section where our students can ask questions and relevant people can reply to that.
[ ] The question entered must be approved by admins in order to appear on the page
[ ] The answers given must be approved by admins in order to appear on the page
[ ] This section should be public on the website.
[ ] admins should only have the option to upvote and downvote answers.
[ ] Have tags in the question [ we can later-on use it for filtering purpose]
[ ] Admins should have flexibility to improve the question&answers [Extension]

Need Ideas on-

Where we should keep this feature
How we should Implement it

Flow:

Question asked => sent for approval[show proper message to user] => approved => comes on the Q&A page => Someone gives answer to it => sent for approval [show proper message to user]=> approved => comes under Q&A Page

Note - After we get a good enough proposal of it's implementation , the related issue will be assigned to the respective person for its implementation .

List of related issues- #700 #728 #729 #730

Jan 09 '22 07:01 Kajol-Kumari

@Kajol-Kumari Shall we add a JWOC label as well?

Feb 02 '22 13:02 Mobasherah12

I think I can work on this issue. Can you assign it to me? @Kajol-Kumari

Feb 05 '22 11:02 ikavyajain

Hello If the issue is still not fixed I would love to work on it

Feb 28 '22 03:02 AnweshaRoses

I’ll also like to work on it!

Feb 28 '22 04:02 ikavyajain

Some insights on how it can be implemented from the perspective of backend - Question model in mongoose -

{
question: "some example question?",
answer: "initially empty",
status: 0, 1, 2 - 0 means question approval pending, 1 means question approved by admin.
tags: ['maths','computer science'] - array of tags,
owner: email of the user that posted this question
}

Answer model in mongoose - 
{
answer: "answer of the question",
questionID: id of the question to which we have answered,
upvotes: 10,
downvotes: 5,
status: 0 or 1 - 0 means answer approval pending, 1 means answer approved by admin,
owner: email of the user that posted this answer.
}

With respect to the above schema various methods can be defined as mentioned below

Post question - so that user can post his/her question.
Get all questions asked by me - so that user can get a list of all the questions he/she has answered.
Approve question - so that admin can approve question. (after approval no edits can be made by the user on question)
answer question - so that any user can answer a particular question.
Approve answer - so that admin can approve answer.
upvote answer - so that user can upvote.
downvote answer - so that user can downvote answer
Filter question - so that filtering can be done.

Reason behind not using parent or child referencing in answer and question because there can be multiple answers to a question and it can exceed the size of document in mongodb.

I am interested to work upon this issue.