SocratesGadfly
Quora erases all the best answers to this question. But we can answer it.
Go to the freeyourstuff Chrome site and download a version of Chrome with the FreeYourStuff extension:
This was written by Erik Moeller.
If you already have Chrome it may be easier to erase it and download an entire new version with freeyourstuff, than to add it as a bolt-on.
Then log on to Quora and go to your “contents” page under your profile. It has all your answers, serially.
Then hit the command to copy it all. It may take some hours, but be patient. Don't touch! Just watch, as it goes through the questions you've answered, and the answers, relentlessly.
Eventually as many as 10,000 answers (largest test so far) will be one big HTML file. Which you can leave on the FreeYourStuff site for Google to see. And also download for yourself to search.
Don’t forget, Quora has no right to host your stuff if they mal-treat you. Which they will, eventually.
Then, go to settings and ERASE your account and do NOT log onto it again, for a month. Quora has a tricky deal where the "erase clock" stops and resets every time you log on, so if you log on after you say you want you account erased, it stops that. You have to order it again, and it STILL takes at least two weeks. They really don’t want you to erase your account. Not enough to treat you well, but--- you know— they want to make money on your answers without being nice to you. They think “nice” has to do with *words*. Not their behavior.
Do not put up with “we don’t
have the resources to do good moderation.” Clearly they have the
resources to batter their writers. This is just another version of
pissing on your head and telling you that it’s raining— and no hard
feelings.
Well, no hard feelings, Quora. You can’t host my stuff. It’s raining on you, too. And (as Queens of the Stone Age would say) that rain is getting colder…