[nostrademons]

It's fallen to #2 now. I would bet it's recency bias; that guy is probably there from this Hacker News link, made a follow-up answer, and because Quora (like HN and many forums) tends to put new replies at the top to give them a chance & see how they do with voting, it momentarily showed up as the top answer.

[raldi]

Quite the opposite; his answer was from Jan 2015; the good answer arrived nearly two years later.

[nostrademons]

I'm not terribly familiar with Quora's UI, but it looked like that's the date that the person's author profile was last updated, not the date that they answered the question. I could be totally wrong on this though. It's not possible for the good answer to have arrived later, because the bad answer references it (unless he edited the post afterwards to refer to it, but if the date on the post is actually a last-edit date for the post, that still wouldn't make sense).

[raldi]

Oh, I think you’re right.