The unusual number of complaints on this thread were actually because of a bug causing a bad experience. This was our fault and it has been fixed.

We don't mind the change of link - we just want knowledge shared on Quora to get to as many people as possible and we don't mind if it happens on other sites. But I wanted to let you guys know that this was a bug and the behavior is back to normal (nothing with share=1 will ever require viewers to sign in / trigger this level of complaints). There can be so much negativity here that it can be hard to tell the difference between general hate (as radmuzom suspected) and a real problem, but in this case it was a real problem.

So the average bastard who reads Hacker News still gets to read the content? Your hypocrisy is just amazing.

I'm having trouble parsing this. What is the problem, exactly?

Well, given that the people here seem to have extreme hatred for Quora, they should not be visiting the site or do it on the terms set by Quora. I find it extremely hypocritical that they would want to read extremely interesting content which is often available there. Given that the original link was there in Quora, I don't see any reason why it should be changed - if people find it bad, they should not click the link or flag it so that it disappears.

Apologies for the abusive word used.