In the famous sunflower restaurant, Zhou Ming met Xiaoxue's forum administrator friend, it was a very sunny young man named Li Tao, he was pursuing Xiaoxue, so that he showed hostility when he saw Zhou Ming for the first time, until he knew the relationship between Zhou Ming and Tang Ran, he was relieved, in order to apologize, Li Tao said that Zhou Ming would definitely try to help if he did anything.

Li Tao readily agreed to the request to help discuss the topic with rhythm on BBS, originally he didn't want to be paid, but Zhou Ming accepted the plan of one dollar with enough words to reply under the persuasion of 'he can not be paid, but others can't work on a voluntary basis'.

Through chatting with Li Tao, Zhou Ming learned that the administrator of this era is not responsible for reviewing posts on the forum or refining the posts like later generations, but as the administrator of the Stanford community, he creates topics on BBS and guides other users to discuss them, so as to increase the number of clicks and user activity on BBS.

"Don't worry, I'm going to make the discussion of whether toys have souls the hottest topic in the Stanford community!"

Li Tao finally patted his chest in front of Xiaoxue and assured Zhou Ming, of course, he did have this confidence.

On the day that Li Tao assured him, Zhou Ming received a call from Steve Jobs from San Francisco: "Mr. Zhou Ming, can you tell me how you did it? My technical consultant told me that there are several other BBS in the Stanford community today, and the number of visits and user discussions about whether our toy has a soul has increased by more than five times compared with yesterday, which is incredible!"

Zhou Ming knew that BBS was first developed through the computer system of AP Company, although several years have passed, and now BBS has developed its own set of independent systems and servers, but as the developer of Jobs of AP Company, of course he knows this very well, so in order to further grasp the whole situation of BBS, he recruited technicians to monitor BBS data through some technical means.

"I met an administrator of the Stanford community here in Paro, and he worked with his classmates to do all of this, and I just promised to pay them a dollar for a meaningful response. ”

Zhou Ming had no need to hide this, and he told Jobs everything that happened after he returned to Paro City.

"It's a cheap way to drive labor, because a lot of people think they can easily make hundreds or thousands of dollars a day, but in fact, at the rate at which most people type, it's hard to make at least half a minute for a single reply, and with the time to think, it's hard to make fifty dollars an hour. ”

Jobs went on to say: "But they think they're just playing BBS, they couldn't make money playing BBS in the past, and now they can play and make money, it's the best of both worlds, especially since many of these people are alumni of Stanford University, and this kind of dollar can drive those top students, just thinking about it is very exciting." ”

"That's true, but I think the most important thing is to see how it turns out, and we have to play on our own in the end. Zhou Ming joked with a smile.

In the end, it turned out that Zhou Ming underestimated the ability to spread rumors, and the next day, Zhou Ming received a call from Jobs again in the morning, he didn't say anything, and opened his mouth to ask Zhou Ming to go to BBS to see the situation.

Due to the needs of publicity, Zhou Ming temporarily installed a computer at home, he turned on the computer and boarded the BBS, and immediately saw the discussion post about whether toys have a soul, and his floor has exceeded 10,000.

"It's over 10,000, and now our post is already the post with the highest number of followers and replies on BBS, which is incredible!"

Jobs said to Zhou Ming excitedly, and even his voice became a little trembling, but it is no wonder that it has only been six or seven years since the invention of BBS, and it has become popular in the last two or three years.

Under the influence of these reasons, there are many posts on BBS, but there are not many that can build very high floors, let alone break 10,000 floors, which many people have never heard of.

Faced with this news, Zhou Ming was also a little surprised, because after more than 20 years, in addition to irrigation, he rarely saw more than 10,000 posts, let alone now, more importantly, Zhou Ming also read the post once before going to bed last night, at that time there were only more than 6,000 floors, how could it break 10,000 overnight, so if you continue to do this, won't this floor explode?

It seems that only the student party is the main force of the Tieba forum! No matter when, at home or abroad.

With a sigh of emotion in his heart, Zhou Ming eased his emotions and asked, "What about data monitoring? ”

Zhou Ming explained to Jobs before that the water army specifically refers to the network personnel who post to create momentum, so Jobs quickly replied: "According to the preliminary statistics of the technical monitoring and combination costs, in the more than 10,000 buildings, at least more than 3,000 are not our water army." ”

Zhou Ming is very satisfied with this result, although it is only 30%, but this is a good momentum, indicating that their campaign to hire a water army has attracted the attention of other users and participated in the discussion. You must know that before yesterday, among the more than 4,000 floors they posted, only more than 500 were real users at most, and the rest were all hired by themselves.

"I think now we can start planning for the next step. Zhou Ming then asked, "Is the technical means of mounting video files on BBS solved?"

At present, there are only two ways to post on BBS, but only these two ways to post are text and pictures, but only these two types of information can obviously not meet the needs of publicity, so as early as the beginning of publicity, Zhou Ming discussed with Jobs to solve this problem through network technology.

"I'm sorry, but that's hard to do. Jobs replied, "Due to the limited server capacity of BBS, it is easy for us to crash the server by forcibly mounting the video directly through brute force." ”

"What if it's played through a third-party link?" Zhou Ming said, "that is, we build a server that can hold video files, we put the video files on our own server, and then mount the network link of our server to the BBS, as long as the user clicks on it, it can be directly downloaded or played." ”

"That's right, you can also play it by transferring a third party, Mr. Zhou Ming, you are so smart!" Jobs suddenly realized, "Seriously, I really doubt now that you are the president of an information technology company, your understanding of Internet technology is simply too advanced!"

In the face of Jobs's praise, Zhou Ming could only laugh embarrassedly, in fact, as far as Zhou Ming is concerned, he doesn't want to pretend to be B like this, but there is no way that he will be reborn after all. What's more, these ideas have stood the test of time and are completely achievable, and of course even Steve Jobs would have been amazed.

"Don't say that, I'll be proud. Zhou Ming said.

In fact, Zhou Ming said this just politely, but he didn't think that after hearing it, Jobs said very seriously: "If it were someone else, I would tell him that pride is the devil who prevents people from progressing, but for Zhou Ming, I think you should be proud." ”

Hearing that Jobs supported himself so much, Rao is Zhou Ming was embarrassed no matter how thick-skinned he was, and then he had to hurriedly explain a few words and hang up the phone.

Zhou Ming continued to stare at the computer, originally Zhou Ming was going to exercise, but just now Jobs told Zhou Ming that transferring a third party for playback is not a technical problem, and Pixar Animation Studio also has its own server due to business needs, so it can be solved soon.

In fact, as Jobs assured, Zhou Ming waited in front of the computer for about a quarter of an hour, and when he refreshed the page again, he saw a new post on BBS.

"Surprise! Risking death to announce the real toy world, there is a video and the truth!"

This is the title of this new post.,Zhou Ming listed it according to the standards of the title party in the post bar forum in later generations.,Because I think that although the title party is hateful.,But the titles they list can attract people.,Naturally, they also have their reasons.,So Zhou Ming saves wasting brain cells.,Use the title party's routine to list the title.,Anyway, there's really content in it.。

Click on the post, there is a picture hanging inside, and there are a few words under the picture: I've been wrong all along, toys really have their own soul, they really live their own world when I'm not at home, the above is the picture I accidentally forgot to turn off my home camera, if you can't see it, please leave an email, I'll send you a file.

Zhou Ming clicks on the picture and immediately jumps into the video, and then there is a video, although the picture quality looks a little blurry, but you can clearly see that the toys inside are walking on their own after the owner leaves, and there are running around the room.

When Zhou Ming refreshed the webpage after watching this video, he quickly saw the following reply:

"Oh my God! It's incredible, I really didn't expect toys to really have souls, and if I hadn't seen this image, I wouldn't have believed it!"

"My God, I'm going to hurry back and confess to my toys, I was really too bad to them before, I'm the worst master, I hope they will forgive me. ”

"I felt like I was going to have an ophthalmologist and psychiatrist appointment because I saw something that was enough to subvert all my perceptions, and it reminded me of Star Wars, but it was more shocking than the first time I saw those metallic sci-fi images!"

Zhou Ming didn't know which of these replies were from the trolls and which were real user replies but he quickly typed his replies on the keyboard: Is the video really the truth? I don't want to believe it, because this video is too vague, maybe it should be handed over to the FBI or a more authoritative agency to identify and judge, otherwise I really don't dare to sleep in the same room with toys anymore, and I can't be sure if these toys will kill me while I sleep.

Zhou Ming replied on purpose, he has rich marketing experience, he knows very well that there should be two voices in the real topic making: this is like two people chatting, if one person asks a question, the other person will only nod yes, then it will be difficult to chat, on the contrary, if the other person says no, and says his own opinion, then the two people can debate endlessly.

Sure enough, when Zhou Ming's reply was refreshed, he was immediately besieged by other netizens: Are you an idiot? This is already a picture, how can you still question it? Oh my God, you actually believe in the inaction bureaucrats of the FBI, then I think you might as well think about how to go to the White House and pretend to be the president to replace him to work more reliable, I think this can also be believed by the stupid pig who has never been to school......

Looking at these remarks that were constantly being refreshed, Zhou Ming smiled: Come on, let's spray it, only in this way can this news attract more people's attention!