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Comment author: drethelin 07 March 2014 02:19:11AM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 March 2014 04:52:10AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: drethelin 07 March 2014 06:30:50AM 1 point [-]

http://www.quora.com/Stephen-Fry-1 AMAs are fine but reddit doesn't really have asynchronous question responses by verified people.