Compelling reason is that it’s got a much better interface for getting famous people to answer questions related to their specialty or private knowledge.
That probably used to be the case. But, now that AMAs are streamlined, subreddits are becoming more known, and killer modteams like askscience and askhistorians have developed, reddit is significantly more attractive to famous people, academics, etc. than Quora is.
Compelling reason is that it’s got a much better interface for getting famous people to answer questions related to their specialty or private knowledge.
That probably used to be the case. But, now that AMAs are streamlined, subreddits are becoming more known, and killer modteams like askscience and askhistorians have developed, reddit is significantly more attractive to famous people, academics, etc. than Quora is.
http://www.quora.com/Stephen-Fry-1 AMAs are fine but reddit doesn’t really have asynchronous question responses by verified people.