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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by acharekar on Thursday January 19, 2012 @10:39AM (#3484896)
Exactly what is pointed out in the post. Why would someone want to hide the original referrer for a link.
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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by brador on Thursday January 19, 2012 @11:59AM (#3485326)
That's not the only thing they're doing...

http://nerdr.com/quora-needs-to-die/

Seems they're going down the annoying search visitors by hiding information route (similar to what expertsexchange was riled on for, although not quite as bad yet).

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