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It's doing no such thing. Archive.org is honoring Quora's robots.txt:

https://www.quora.com/robots.txt

# We opt out of the wayback machine because inclusion would allow people to

# discover the identity of authors who had written sensitive answers publicly and

# later had made them anonymous, and because it would prevent authors from being

# able to remove their content from the internet if they change their mind about

# publishing it. As far as we can tell, there is no way for sites to selectively

# programmatically remove content from the archive and so this is the only way

# for us to protect writers. If they open up an API where we can remove content

# from the archive when authors remove it from Quora, but leave the rest of the

# content archived, we would be happy to opt back in. See the page here:

# https://archive.org/about/exclude.php

Also worth checking the top-most dude's post (Jim Matkin):

"In later life, Matkin has turned to producing self-published opinion pieces on climatology via Academia.edu, articulating his position of climate change denial, his belief in the Global warming conspiracy theory, and criticizing political and economic reforms aimed at avoiding or mitigating anthropogenic climate change, which he attributes to the political left. These articles consist mainly of skeptic articles written by others and republished with additional commentary by Matkin."