In just over a week, Quora has just over 100,000 users, but its page views and searches on major search engines have soared to the top 10 in the United States.

It's not just Silicon Valley that is talking about Quora, but students at major universities are proud to have Quora accounts.

A large number of Ameriken college students have questions and want to help them ask questions on Quora to get answers through people around them who have a Quora account.

This is like ChatGPT in later generations, ChatGPT is unusable for the IP in the mainland, for this new thing, although everyone is discussing it, but there are still a few who have really used it.

This also gave birth to a business opportunity, which is to help you ask ChatGPT questions, and the questions are expensive.

If you can't use ChatGPT, you can still brush Douyin, there are many alternative entertainment options, as for wanting to use ChatGPT as a productivity tool, it is inconvenient to use someone else's account, and it involves leaking your personal privacy.

Because ChatGPT's conversations will be saved in the account. If you delete it every time you use someone else's account, you have to re-exercise ChatGPT, which is inconvenient.

But in today's lack of Internet entertainment, without Facebook, Ins, and YouTube, college students can't play Quora as uncomfortable as ants crawling on their bodies.

Everyone was already dissatisfied with the threshold set by Zhou Xin, and the threshold of the Riot Games community can be solved by buying the cheapest game, which is only $10, which is a trivial matter for users who can afford a computer, and everyone can endure it and pass.

Quora accounts can't be bought with money, and even if you go to Ebay to buy a verification code transferred by someone else, it will have to start at $50, which is not something that everyone can afford.

So much so that everyone launched a "We need Quora" campaign on major forums to show their dissatisfaction with Quora's high registration threshold.

Quora has the influence of Larry Sanger in the college student community, sending some verification codes to college students, but the number is very small.

Each university is assigned less than 200 registration verification codes.

The demand from potential users is so high, which is a sweet annoyance for any Internet company.

It's just that the speed of this spread is too fast, which is inconsistent with Zhou Xin's original operation plan.

"Newman, the question we need to think about now is whether we are going to follow the previous rhythm or whether we are going to loosen the restrictions on user registration."

Quora has only three management members: Zhou Xin, Jimmy, and Larry Sanger, of which Zhou Xin is responsible for strategic planning, Jimmy is responsible for specific management, and Larry Sanger is responsible for product operations.

When the two joined Quora, they brought the entire Nupedia staff with them, which was equivalent to Quora acquiring Nupedia.

Zhou Xin gave them a total of 10 percent of the shares.

Where have Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wells seen this scene before, their friends are looking for the verification code they want to register an account, and any online forum can see a post asking for a verification code for Quora registration.

When I started Nupedia before, I didn't even have a thousand users.

Now there are only 100,000 users, and the posture of tens of millions of users has been created.

It's like starting with only 100 people subscribing, but each chapter says there can be 1,000 articles.

Although they all have entrepreneurial experience, they have no experience in exploding, and Larry Sanger believes that Zhou Xin needs to discuss the operation of Quora.

They don't have experience Zhou Xinyou, Zhou Xin makes a product and a product is popular, which couldn't be more experienced.

Zhou Xin didn't speak for the first time, but paused for a moment to organize the language in his brain: "We can discuss what we want to do in different situations."

First of all, the user's suggestion is just a reference, and we can't be interrupted by the user's suggestion.

Secondly, I think there are several options for whether or not to relax the restrictions on user registration.

The first is to directly open the user registration limit, any user can register, so the advantage is that we will quickly get a large number of users, casually break a million, or even break 10 million. The problem with this is that the number of users will increase the difficulty of our management as well.

We need users to register with their real names, and we need to manage users' answers, and now we can manage the scale of 100,000 users, and the difficulty of management after millions of users has increased exponentially.

And the surge in the number of users will bring about a rapid decline in the quality of answers.

Now when a question is asked, at least five out of the top ten respondents really understand the question and can give a valuable answer.

Once registration is open, it is possible to get the first 50 respondents to a question before one of the first 50 respondents will have a valuable answer, and the other answers will either be of limited value or will not be the answer asked.

Similarly, after the number of users surges, the proportion of users with sufficient judgment will decrease, and the answer that agrees with the top number is not necessarily a truly valuable answer, but may just be in line with the psychology of more individuals.

For example, when it comes to political views, after the registration is opened, extreme views will be more endorsed.

To put it simply, completely opening up user registration restrictions will bring about a decline in the quality of the Q&A community. If Harvard were to recruit all college students, it would be less valuable, and he could not guarantee that every graduate would be above a certain line. ”

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wells were quickly convinced, because Nupedia, the online encyclopedia they had previously made, was a purely academic online encyclopedia, and if they wanted to be editors, they had to be at least PhDs.

They naturally approve of this kind of elite community, which raises the bar.

Before chatting with Zhou Xin, they were worried that Zhou Xin would not be able to resist the temptation and would be coerced by public opinion and open user registration on a large scale.

As a result, Zhou Xin thought more deeply about this matter than the two of them.

Many points that they didn't take into account, Zhou Xin took into account.

Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger looked at each other, and they both knew each other's thoughts: Newman deserved to be Newman.

Jimmy Wells also has questions: "If we don't open up user registration permissions on a large scale, what if other knowledge quiz communities that have copied our model take advantage of this wave of craze and attract these users away?" ”

This is also a question that entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and even entrepreneurs in all industries, need to think about, that is, how do you maintain your advantage in the face of homogeneous competition.

Larry Sanger is equally concerned about this issue.

This is a typical psychology of wanting to be and wanting to stand. I don't want to open the registration rights to all users, and I don't want users to go to similar quiz communities to enjoy similar services.

Zhou Xin asked rhetorically: "If we let go of user registration, can we make other Internet companies not to be knowledge quiz communities?"

In other words, will other companies not compete directly with us because of the number of users?

A lot of times, slow is fast. ”