The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 82 Too High Threshold

"User Registration Exam"

"The nature and object of the examination

When applying for registration on Quora, please choose the section you are good at. The user registration test questions are extracted from the built question bank, which is used to measure the user's level.The content of the exam varies greatly depending on the board, and the ranking system will be adopted for passing the exam, and the top [-] percent of users in the board will be qualified to become official Quora users."

Rex was dumbfounded. Registering an account requires a test, 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 is a character who 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 a doubt.

Due to the good relationship between Quora and professors of various universities, Quora finds a large number of professors and writes questions to form a question bank in this field.

During the two-hour exam, Rex thought it would not be too difficult, but it turned out to be more difficult than he had imagined.

Although he studied computer in college, such as database and data management, data structure and algorithm, computer network and distributed system, he learned it in corresponding professional courses when he was in college.

But having studied it does not mean that after graduating from university and working for so many years, you can still understand this knowledge, especially the more theoretical content such as computer networks and operating systems.

After spending two hours doing it, all Rex could think about was spitting on Quora.

He went to the main forum of the Riot Electronics community to see that everyone was scolding Quora.

"Is Newman crazy? Relying on his own products, setting such a high threshold for users? As a doctoral student majoring in computer science, I can tell you that this set of computer test questions is at least the content of the doctoral entrance exam, and it is an Ivy League college. Doctor of the school."

"Is Quora setting such a high bar to keep users out?"

"It's not fair at all. Those who got accounts before were just lucky, but now we need to pass an exam to get another account, and it's a ranking exam."

"I think this is a kind of racial *discrimination*. Due to historical reasons, the proportion of blacks who have the opportunity to receive higher education is lower than other ethnic groups. Internet services like Quora that can obtain knowledge, through setting Barriers keep out the vast majority of the black community."

Racial discrimination was relatively serious in 1999. On February 2, the African-American man Ahmed Dulo 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 for this reason.

"It's hard for me to imagine entering the 21st century, and there is still such an Internet service that naturally sets a high threshold"

Since Quora is the most popular topic on the Internet recently, after Quora opened user registration, it caused heated discussions on major online forums. After everyone registered, they began to scold.

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 is very simple, that is the exam, and the exam is not just a pass, but also a ranking.

This makes users who are accustomed to enjoying various Internet services without threshold very dissatisfied.

Later, when registering some Internet services, mobile phone numbers and mobile phone verification codes are required. Now you can register as many email addresses as you like, as long as you don’t have the same name as other people’s email addresses.

Quora’s way of playing has caused users to criticize in various forums, some directly attacking, some cynicism, and almost no support for Quora’s doing so.

Of course, apart from scolding, there is another type of post.

"Can everyone give me a like?" Then put a link below.

The question bank of science and engineering is all multiple-choice questions, and the multiple-choice questions are directly selected, and the background is automatically scored and ranked, all 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 is the right to score?Not to mention, with so many users, manpower will definitely not be able to handle them.

The operation team of Quora thought of a way, that is to ask experts in this field to ask questions, and then users answer the questions, and the number of likes answered will be ranked, and the top 10% users will be eligible to register.

Everyone scolds and scolds, it is time to take the exam, and the canvassing should be done honestly.

"Is there anyone who can publish the questions they have done?"

There are also those who try to let everyone disclose the topic, so that they can gain an advantage in the exam.

Rex not only looked around in the Riot Electronics community, but also went to other online forums. He looked around and found that everyone was cursing, but he 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 Yahoo's office building, Kevin is very happy.

Yang Zhiyuan and Zhou Xin are friends, but this does not affect Yahoo's own knowledge question-and-answer community.

Kevin is the Yahoo executive mentioned earlier. He single-handedly led the Yahoo game community to copy the contents of the Riot game community.

He is still the object that Yang Zhiyuan relies on.

Originally, after Quora announced the opening of registration, Yahoo was very worried.

Because even according to Quora, Yahoo's products will take at least two months to go live.

After two months, everything is cold.

As a result, Quora actually set such a high threshold. Isn't this a dead end?
"Newman is excellent, yes, his exploration of user needs is absolutely top-notch, but he is too proud.

The knowledge question and answer community focuses on the community, not the knowledge question and answer.

Setting such a high user registration threshold is naturally difficult for users.

When there are no other knowledge quiz community products, users will take their exams out of enthusiasm, curiosity, and demand for such Internet services.

But no user would be foolish enough to take their user registration exam when there are other Internet companies that can provide the same service.

Newman seems to think that they are the only ones who can do knowledge quiz communities. "Kevin has a lot of opinions on Zhou Xin because of the previous incident.

Yahoo's plagiarism caused the stock price to plummet, and Yang Zhiyuan apologized in public, which seriously affected his position in the company.

He was originally the second-ranked executive, but now he has a tendency to be marginalized.

Therefore, Kevin is hostile to Zhou Xin, and at the same time hopes to regain his power with the help of Yahoo Answers.

　I will go to Sanjiang next week. Kavinka has been very good recently, and there is another chapter to be added tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)