It would be nice if Atlassian Answers provides a way to save the draft while commenting/answering the questions.
Filed here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/ANSWERS-445.
On a related note - this should be in post parameters, so your answer should be there if you click 'back' in your browser. Hopefully you're not losing it that way as well?
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