An "Askbox" plugin
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This is a quite interesting idea, I have no idea whether anyone will be interested in it.
I am here in China, and among us teenagers we have a really popular form of social networking called an "askbox". I have no idea whether such sort of platforms exist in other countries, nor do I know what it is usually referred to as by foreigners.
So basically an "askbox" is some sort of an anonymous mailbox, where every user has his own personal URL link that leads to a webpage where people can ask questions anonymously in it for that person to answer. The answer to every question, should the answerer (hence the owner of the askbox) not choose to turn it private, is publicly shown for everyone to read. We consider this a really interesting way to interact with and know better about each other, and its quite popular among Chinese teenagers.
I am seeking to host a such service on this school forum that I am building, and since I don't know what this kind of social media is named abroad, I can't seem to find any useable, ready-to-deploy projects by other developers. And sadly I know nothing about how one should create such a program, only capable of deploying them. Yet I think it would be a pretty interesting thing to have on a school forum.
Such program requires a page for every user, consisting of an input field for asking questions and a displayed list of all questions previously answered by the user. An additional page only visible to the user himself displaying all the new unanswered questions, with an input field to fill in the answer for each question. Note that pages correspond to the owners not the askers, and therefore its more of a unilaterally public page like one's personal homepage.
I know this is a really sophisticated thing and I'm not having too much expectation for it to be actually realized. I have no idea whether this is even possible with NodeBB. However I think this is rather interesting, therefore posting it here to introduce it to everyone. It would be marvellous should anyone actually make it possible via either plugin or widget or even a new feature for NodeBB.
If anyone's further interested about this I am happy to answer questions.
