"User Registration Exam"
"The nature and objects of the examination
When applying for registration on Quora, please choose the section you are good at. The user registration test questions are drawn from the built question bank and are used to measure the user's level. The content of the exam varies greatly depending on the section. If you pass the exam, a ranking system will be adopted. The top ten percent of users in the section will be qualified to become official Quora users..."
Rex was dumbfounded. You need to take a test to register an account, and this test does not mean that you can get a Quora account if you pass the test, but that you need to rank in the top ten percent.
Fortunately, Rex always likes to accept challenges. As a programmer in Silicon Valley, he is naturally the most confident in the computer field, so he chose the computer sector without any doubt.
Due to the good relationship between Quora and professors from various universities, Quora found a large number of professors to write questions to form a question bank in this field.
Rex originally thought that the two-hour exam would not be difficult, but it turned out to be more difficult than he imagined.
Although he studied computers in college, such as databases and data management, data structures and algorithms, computer networks and distributed systems, he learned them all in corresponding professional courses in college.
But having studied it does not mean that after graduating from college and working for so many years, you can still understand this knowledge, especially the theoretical content such as computer networks and operating systems.
After spending two hours doing it, Rex could only think about bitching about Quora.
He went to the main forum of Riot Electronics Community and saw that everyone was criticizing Quora.
"Is Newman crazy? Relying on his own products to set such a high threshold for users? As a PhD student majoring in computer science, I can tell you that this set of computer questions is at least part of the PhD entrance exam, and it is required by the Ivy League. Doctorate from the school.”
“Is Quora setting such a high threshold to keep users out?”
"This is not fair at all. Those who obtained accounts before were just lucky, but now we need to pass an exam to obtain another account, and it is a ranking exam."
"I think this is a kind of racial discrimination. Due to historical reasons, black people have fewer opportunities to receive higher education than other ethnic groups. Internet services like Quora that can obtain knowledge can set up The threshold keeps the vast majority of the black community out.”
Racial discrimination was still serious in 1999. On February 4, the African-American man Ahmaud Duro was shot and killed by the New York police, which triggered large-scale demonstrations and protests.
Fortunately, it is not as exaggerated as it was later, otherwise Quora would really be boycotted on a large scale for this reason.
"It's hard for me to imagine that we are about to enter the 21st century and there will be such an Internet service that naturally sets high barriers to entry."
Since Quora is the most popular topic on the Internet recently, Quora triggered heated discussions on major online forums after it opened user registration. After everyone registered, they started to curse.
You can register a Quora account. After registration, the account can only collect answers, follow users, and follow questions. Not to mention answering questions, asking questions, and even liking questions.
To open these permissions, it is very simple, that is, an exam, and the exam is not just about passing, it also requires ranking.
This makes users who are used to being able to enjoy various Internet services without any threshold very dissatisfied.
Later, registering for some Internet services required a mobile phone number and mobile phone verification code. Now you can register as many email addresses as you want, as long as they don’t have the same email address as other people’s.
This kind of gameplay of Quora has caused users to criticize it in major forums, some directly criticizing it, some sarcastically, and almost no one supports Quora's approach.
Of course, besides scolding, there is another type of post.
"Can everyone give me a like?" and then put a link below.
The question banks for science and engineering subjects are all multiple-choice questions. Just select the multiple-choice questions and you're done. The background automatically scores and ranks the questions in one go.
As for the fields of humanities and social sciences, such as history, politics, and economics, it is difficult to have a unified evaluation standard.
Who gives this scoring power? Not to mention, with so many users, manpower will definitely not be able to handle it.
The operation team of Quora came up with a way, which is to find experts in the field to ask questions, and then users answer the questions and rank them by the number of likes of their answers. The top 10% of users are eligible to register.
Everyone was scolding each other, saying whether it was time to take an exam or canvass votes, it was better to canvass votes honestly.
"Is there anyone who can publish the questions they have done?"
There are also those who try to get everyone to reveal the questions so that they can have an advantage in the exam.
Rex not only looked around the Riot Electronics community, but also went around other online forums. After looking around, he found that everyone was scolding, but they still wanted to have a Quora account with all permissions.
"Quora is digging its own grave! After the launch of Yahoo Answers, users will flock to it." In the Yahoo office building, Kevin was very happy.
Jerry Yang and Zhou Xin are friends, but this does not affect Yahoo's efforts to build its own knowledge question and answer community.
Kevin is the Yahoo executive mentioned before. He single-handedly led the Yahoo game community to copy the contents of the Riot Games community, which caused a public opinion crisis at Yahoo and caused other executives to resign.
He is still the person Yang Zhiyuan relies on.
Originally, after Quora announced the opening of registration, Yahoo was very worried internally.
Because even if you follow Quora's instructions, it will take at least two months for Yahoo's products to go online.
After two months, everything was cold.
As a result, Quora actually set such a high threshold. Isn’t this asking for death?
“Newman is excellent, and his exploration of user needs is absolutely top-notch, but he is too proud.
The Q&A community focuses on the community, not the Q&A community.
Setting such a high user registration threshold will naturally make it difficult for users.
When there are no other knowledge question and answer community products, users will take their exams out of enthusiasm, curiosity, and demand for this type of Internet service.
But when there are other Internet companies that can provide the same services, no users will be willing to take their user registration exams.
Newman seems to think that they are the only ones who can create a trivia community. "Kevin was very dissatisfied with Zhou Xin because of what happened before.
Yahoo's plagiarism caused the stock price to plummet, and Jerry Yang apologized in public, which seriously affected his status within the company.
Originally he was the second-ranked executive, but now he is on the verge of being marginalized.
Therefore, Kevin is hostile to Zhou Xin and hopes to regain his power through Yahoo Answers.
