Quora is a great website. I've been positively surprised at the the very high quality of answers tons of people on it produce in large quantities. Lately, I've been caught up with spending perhaps too much time on Quora - enough for my Steem presence to have been diminished by that. I've been telling people about Steem, Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and decentralization in general in my answers. I don't have a huge following but I know some of my old acquaintances from my blogging days have noticed my presence on Quora. I suppose I've been making a positive impact in spreading awareness of Steem on Quora. But the question arises how to capitalize on the increased awareness of Steem among Quorans.
Musing at musing.io is a Steem app that works very much like Quora. But it suffers from a major flaw: the content is not censorship resistant because what Musing does is only make placeholder posts for the questions and answers with a link to Musing's own centralized database. Only comments to answers are on Steem. The only thing that Musing uses the blockchain for is to tap into the reward system. I'm not sure I like that very much. Censorship resistance and putting users in control of their content and relationships are the primary reasons Steem exists. And because the questions and top level answers are not readable through any other Steem front end, they are unlikely to attract too many votes. After Steemit, Inc pulled their one million SP delegation from @musing over a year ago, the website has become a ghost town.
It would be very cool to revive the Q&A format on Steem. I would like to test the waters by dedicating the #question-answer tag to questions and answers to make them easy to find for anyone wishing to support the initiative with their upvotes. I propose that all top level posts be questions with the #question-answer first and with the rest defining the topic. All questions would be answered in the comment section.
I would like to get as many Quorans as possible to join Steem. The greatest value of Quora is in the sheer number of people on the platform. There are always people willing to write a great answer to any good question anyone is getting answered. For that reason, I think the questions under this tag should be of interest to a sufficient number of existing Steemians to attract enough participation to build a repository of knowledge large and good enough for Quorans to bother to join Steem for. While the topics could be anything, I suggest cryptocurrencies, decentralization, censorship resistance, etc. - and of course Steem - would be the type of content the most likely interest enough Steemians to be a good start.
I suggest those interested in participating in this initiative save their largest upvotes to the best answers. But remember to support good questions, too, to keep them coming.