User Registration Exam

"The nature and object of the examination

When applying for Quora registration, please select the section you are good at, and the user registration exam questions are extracted from the built question bank, which is used to measure the user's level. The content of the exam varies greatly according to different sections, and the top 10% of users in this section will be qualified to become official users of Quora......"

Rex was dumbfounded, there is still a test required to register an account, and this exam does not mean that you can get a Quora account if you pass the test, but you need to rank in the top ten percent.

Fortunately, Rex is a character who likes to accept challenges, and as a programmer in Silicon Valley, he is naturally the most confident in the computer field, so he undoubtedly chose the computer sector.

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

With two hours of exams, Rex didn't think it would 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 studied them in the corresponding professional courses in college.

However, studying does not mean that you can still understand these knowledge after graduating from university and working for so many years, especially the partial theoretical content of computer networks and operating systems.

After spending two hours doing it, Rex was full of just want to complain about Quora.

He went to the main section of the Riot community, and all of them were scolding Quora.

"Is Newman crazy? Relying on your own products, you set such a high threshold for users? As a doctoral student majoring in computer science, I can tell you that the computer science test is at least the content of the doctoral entrance exam, and it is a Ph.D. from an Ivy League university. ”

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

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

"I think it's a racial discrimination, because historically, blacks have had less access to higher education than other ethnic groups, and Internet services like Quora, which have access to knowledge, have kept the vast majority of blacks out by setting barriers."

Racial discrimination in 1999 was still relatively serious, as recently as February 4, when an African-American man, Amod Dulo, was shot and killed by New York police, which led to mass demonstrations and protests.

Fortunately, it is not as exaggerated as it was later, otherwise Quora would have been subjected to a massive boycott for this reason.

"It's hard for me to imagine that the 21st century is about to enter the 21st century and that there is such a naturally high-barrier to entry for Internet services"

Since Quora is the hottest topic on the Internet recently, Quora has sparked heated discussions on major online forums after opening user registration, and after everyone went to register, they began to scold.

You can register a Quora account, and after registration, the account can only collect answers, follow users and follow questions, let alone answer questions, ask questions, and even like questions.

To open these permissions, it's very simple, it's an exam, and the exam doesn't just mean passing, you also need to rank.

This makes users who are accustomed to being able to enjoy all kinds of Internet services without a threshold very dissatisfied.

Later, to register some Internet services, you also need a mobile phone number and a mobile phone verification code, now you can register your email address at will, you can register as many as you want, as long as you don't have the same name as other people's email names.

This kind of gameplay of Quora has caused users to scold on major forums, some directly criticize, some sneer, and almost no one can see support for Quora to do so.

Of course, in addition to scolding, there is another type of post.

"Can you give me a thumbs up?" 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 humanities and social sciences, such as history, politics, and economics, it is difficult to have a unified evaluation standard.

Who is this scoring power given to? Not to mention, with so many users, manpower will definitely not be able to handle it.

Quora's operation team came up with a solution, that is, to find experts in the field to ask questions, and then users answer the questions, and the number of likes answered, and the top 10% of users are eligible to register.

Everyone scolds and scolds, should take the exam, should canvass votes or honestly canvass votes.

"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 community, but also went to other online forums, and after looking around, he found that everyone was scolding, but still wanted to have a Quora account with all the permissions.

"Quora, you're digging your own grave! When Yahoo Answers was launched, users flocked to it. "In Yahoo's office building, Kevin is happy.

Yang Zhiyuan and Zhou Xin are friends, but this does not affect Yahoo to be its own knowledge quiz community.

Kevin is the Yahoo executive mentioned earlier, who single-handedly led the Yahoo game community to copy the content of the Riot game community, causing a Yahoo public opinion crisis, and causing other executives to leave the company.

He is still the object that Yang Zhiyuan relies on.

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

Because even if you copy Quora, it will take at least two months for Yahoo's product to go live.

After two months, everything is cold.

As a result, Quora actually set such a high threshold, isn't it self-defeating?

"Newman is very good, yes, he is absolutely top notch in digging into user needs, but he is too proud.

The focus is on the community, not the Q&A.

Setting such a high user registration threshold is naturally difficult to get along with users.

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

But when there are other Internet companies that can provide the same service, no user will be willing to take their user registration exam stupidly.

Newman seems to think that they are the only ones who will do the quiz community. Kevin has a lot of opinions about Zhou Xin because of what happened before.

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

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

As a result, Kevin is hostile to Zhou Xin and hopes to regain his power with the help of Yahoo Answers.