Q&A block

Let visitors ask questions, answer them from your inbox, choose what goes public.

The Q&A block lets visitors ask you questions from your page. You review every question on your dashboard, write an answer and choose whether to make the thread public. Answered questions appear on your live page for everyone to read.

Adding the block

  1. Open your page in the builder.
  2. Drag the Q&A block from the block palette onto your canvas.
  3. Save and publish your page. The "Ask me a question" button is now live.

How questions work

  • Visitors can ask anonymously or with their oomf username (if they have an account and choose to attach their name).
  • Every question lands in your Q&A inbox on the dashboard as pending. Nothing is public until you answer and mark it visible.
  • You can block a sender; their future questions are silently rejected. Useful for repeat spammers.
  • Anonymous questions are rate-limited per IP (10 an hour) to reduce spam. Signed-in people have a separate limit (20 an hour).

Answering questions

  1. Go to the Q&A inbox on your dashboard.
  2. Click a pending question and type your answer.
  3. Submit. The question moves to "answered" and shows on your page as a threaded reply.

Display styles

In the block settings you can choose between three display styles, Card, Compact and Minimal, to match your page. You can also control how many questions are shown at once.

Profile pictures in Q&A

If a signed-in person posts a question with their name, their current profile picture is shown on the thread. If they later update their picture, all their earlier questions update automatically.