Yesterday afternoon Rep. Anthony Weiner made his debut at Reddit, posting a call for users (known as Redditors) to ask him questions about Obamacare on its one year anniversary.

You can check out our slideshow of his responses here.

The New York democrat, who loves to stir up trouble at Fox News, responded to queries about campaign finance reform, health care, Israel, WikiLeaks, the Tea Party, and more.

Soon after the Wire reported Weiner's open forum, we received an email from Eddie Geller, who founded a political action committee on Reddit — the 27-year-old actor was frustrated by the November 2010 elections and the possible death of net neutrality that they might result in. Originally conceived as RedditPAC, Geller's organization now known as the Open Source Democracy Foundation.

Geller says he feels strongly that Reddit is an excellent forum for politicians to reach out and speak with members of the public — He pointed out that quite a few politicians have done so before Weiner: John Garamendi (twice), Dennis Kucinich, Barney Frank, Ron Paul and Mike Gravel have all answered questions on Reddit.

"I wanted to let you know," Geller added "that though it didn't receive as much fanfare, our group got Al Franken to answer some of Reddit's questions yesterday."

The group had met with the Senator's staff in February, and passed along a list of Redditor queries. Franken answered the questions here, and many on the subject of net neutrality but also about his voting for the PATRIOT act, something many Redditors had asked Geller about — before they realized he had voted against it.

Speaking with Geller by phone, I asked why he felt Reddit was a better forum for political Q & As than other social media, such as Twitter and Facebook.

"Basically, Reddit is people sharing links," he said, "but the combination of that and finding a politician answering questions just very interesting. Reddit's base is very political, and I think many Redditors are very well informed."

According to Geller, the fact that politicians want to speak to the Reddit community "is a testament to how the website works: good comments rise to the top and I think people respect that."

The best way for public figures to hold a forum on Reddit, Geller said, was to get in touch with moderators and administrators on the website, to help them promote "IamA" postings — IamA, which promotes a personal story such as Weiner's "IAmA Democrat Who Fights, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). AMA." (AMA is a Reddit acronym which means "ask me anything.")

According to Geller, Weiner's responses were the most rewarding, for both readers and the Representative — for readers, "you can see that it's him, sitting behind the computer and typing," said Geller. "You get that feeling, with their Reddit username, they're really answering these questions. It's more personal and alive."

Later yesterday evening, Geller sent an additional email with his final thoughts about Reddit:

"I want to convince Redditors of the power they can wield if they act collectively. They control the front page of a website that gets over 13 million unique visitors a month. If that's not a powerful tool to propel a grassroots movement, then I don't know what is."