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HN is not a Q&A site, neither is Reddit. StackOvereflow is focussed on narrow topics (and moderated by Nazis). That leaves plenty of room for a site like Quora
by Tycho 14y ago
HN is not a Q&A site, neither is Reddit. StackOvereflow is focussed on narrow topics (and moderated by Nazis). That leaves plenty of room for a site like Quora which is oriented around finding answers to questions you have on any serious topic. Other sites might have better matereial when you do a direct comparison, but that's like saying a book of essays by Richard Feynman is always more interesting than looking the same topic up in Encyclopedia Britannica.
- chris_wot 14y agoWho knew that Nazis were so good at keeping question and answer sites so well moderated? I doubt even Godwin would have known.
- rat87 14y agoReddit is not a Q & A site but sometimes very good questions and answers pop up. Particularly in the http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience subreddit.
- philwelch 14y ago> HN is not a Q&A site, neither is Reddit. That hardly seems necessary. Any generalized discussion site can answer Q&A, since that's just a discussion format. That isn't true the other way around, hence the StackOverflow nazis.
- singular 14y ago> HN is not a Q&A site, neither is Reddit. True, but both have Q&A 'modes', e.g. Ask HN and IAmA AMA.