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• If you operate a search engine and would like to crawl Quora,
• you can email robotstxt@quora.com. Thanks.
• To disallow GPTBot to access Quora.
• People share a lot of sensitive material on Quora - controversial political
• views, workplace gossip and compensation, and negative opinions held of
• companies. Over many years, as they change jobs or change their views, it is
• important that they can delete or anonymize their previously-written answers.
• 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
• Meanwhile, if you are looking for an older version of any content on Quora, we
• have full edit history tracked and accessible in product (with the exception of
• content that has been removed by the author). You can generally access this by
• clicking on timestamps, or by appending "/log" to the URL of any content page.
• For any questions or feedback about this please visit our contact page
• https://help.quora.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
• Blocked since a lot of bad requests were made by this crawler.