What's better, Reddit or Quora?

Quora is a pay site.

Correction, not a pay site. It is a real name site. I haven’t gone back there in a long time.

Never really used either of the sites, only access them through Google when I need to find a specific information. Usually anything that provides good information is good to me.

Though I kind of prefer reddit as it has more than just Q&A.

Of the two, I prefer Reddit.

Quora requires a real name (or at least something that passes as a real name).

Quora uses some mysterious algorithm to determine what it thinks you want to see, and there’s no way to simply browse. For me, it became suuuper repetitive very quickly.

Both have very large user bases, but at least Reddit’s in line commenting system doesn’t bury side discussions completely from view like Quora.

Honestly, I’d really like Reddit if it had about a tenth of the number of users it does. It’s just too big to be social anymore.

Reddit is so large, it can’t help but be better than Quora at many, many things. It’s worse in the sense that there is a lot of trolling and abuse, but there are also experts and people with diverse experience and interests who share quality content.

Personally, if given the choice between a Reddit page and a Quora page in a search result, I’ll go with the Reddit page. I don’t like the Quora requirements of having to be logged in and having to use one’s “real name” (I have an account under a fake name, but whatever), and I find the respondents to be pointlessly argumentative – so I’m already pissed off when I arrive at the site. I also hate the “I’m asking a question to create a platform for my stupid idea” questions.

Fluther is a lot better at the Q&A format than Quora is, frankly. Reddit is not just Q&A, so not really in the same category, as far as I’m concerned.

Reddit is better in my opinion. There is too much censorship on Quara and they have that dreaded real name policy too. You pretty much have no control over your content on Quara, as anyone can edit your questions and shift them into whatever category they want.

I don’t mind using my “real name” on Quora, but actually this is only necessary if you want to ask a question or make a comment. You don’t need to register an ID just to read the stuff—same as Fluther. What I don’t like about Quora is that it’s too hard to navigate. Everything is too scattered and the “Top Stories for You” don’t seem to have any direct relation to the topics you’ve indicated as your “feeds”.

I don’t know if Reddit is any better in this regard, but I’ve heard of “sub-Reddits”, which if it is what think it is, I suppose can narrow things down on a large site with very many users.

Not sure about Quora requiring “real names”. I see many answers given by “Anonymous”.

@cinemagicllc “You can practically ask an astronaut or a hacker or your country’s president to answer your question, if they’re on Quora and you have enough credits” You can ask but they may not answer.