Chapter 76 Slow means fast

In just one week, although Quora only has over 100,000 users, its web views and searches on major search engines have soared to the top ten web pages in the United States.

Not only Silicon Valley is discussing Quora, but students from major universities are proud to have Quora accounts.

A large number of Amelican college students have questions and hope to help them ask questions on Quora to get answers through people with Quora accounts.

This is like ChatGPT in later generations. ChatGPT is inoperable for IP in mainland China. Although everyone is discussing this new thing, there are still a few that have been used.

This also created a business opportunity, which is to specifically help you ask ChatGPT questions, and the cost of asking questions is quite expensive.

You can also browse Douyin without using ChatGPT. There are many alternative entertainment options. As for wanting to use ChatGPT as a productivity tool, using other people's accounts is not convenient, and this involves revealing your personal privacy.

Because ChatGPT conversations will be saved in the account. If you finish talking and then delete them every time you use someone else's account, then you have to exercise ChatGPT again, which is inconvenient.

But today, when there is a lack of Internet entertainment, no Facebook, no Ins, and no YouTube, college students can't play Quora as uncomfortable as having ants crawl on their bodies.

Everyone is dissatisfied with the threshold set by Zhou Xin. The threshold for the Riot Game Community can solve the problem by buying the cheapest game, which is only $10. This is a trivial matter for users who can afford computers. If you endure it, you will pass.

Quora's account can't be bought for money. Even if you buy a verification code transferred by someone else on Ebay, it will start at $50. This price is not something that everyone can afford.

So much so that everyone launched a "We need Quora" event in major forums to show their dissatisfaction with the excessive registration threshold for Quora.

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

Each university has less than 200 registration verification codes assigned.

The high voices of potential users are a sweet trouble for any Internet company.

But the spreading speed was too fast, which was inconsistent with the operation plan originally formulated by Zhou Xin.

"Newman, the question we need to think about now is whether we should follow the previous pace or relax the restrictions on user registration."

Quora's management team is only Zhou Xin, Jimmy and Larry Sanger. Zhou Xin is responsible for strategic planning, Jimmy is responsible for specific management, and Larry Sanger is responsible for product operations.

When they joined Quora, they brought the entire Nupedia employees together, which was equivalent to Quora's acquisition of Nupedia.

Zhou Xin gave them a total of 10% of their shares.

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wells have seen this scene before. Friends around them are looking for verification codes for their account registration. You can see posts asking for Quora registration verification codes on any online forum.

When I was working on Nupedia before, there were not even a thousand users.

There are only 100,000 users now, and they have made the stance of tens of millions of users.

For example, Qidian only has one hundred people to subscribe, but each chapter says there are one thousand items.

Although they all have entrepreneurial experience, they have no experience in becoming popular. Larry Sanger believes that Quora's operation needs to be discussed carefully with Zhou Xinlai.

They have no experience in Zhou Xinyou. Zhou Xin made one product and became popular, and his experience was so rich.

Zhou Xin did not speak at the first time, but paused for a moment to organize language in his brain: "We can discuss what we want to do according to the situation.

First of all, users’ suggestions are just references, and we cannot interrupt our own rhythm by users’ suggestions.

Secondly, regarding whether to relax the restrictions on user registration, I think there are several options.

The first is to directly open the user registration restrictions, and any user can register. The advantage is that we will quickly gain a large number of users, easily exceeding one million or even tens of millions. The problem is that the surge in the number of users will also increase the difficulty for our management.

We need to register users with real names and manage users' answers. Now we can manage the scale of 100,000 users, and the management difficulty will increase exponentially after millions of users.

Moreover, the surge in the number of users will lead to a rapid decline in the quality of answers.

Now that a question is asked, at least five of the top ten respondents truly understand the question and can give valuable answers.

Once registration is opened, after a question is asked, you may always get the top fifty answers, and the other answers are either limited in value or answered inappropriately.

Similarly, after the number of users surges, the proportion of users with sufficient judgment will decrease. The answers that agree with the top of the number may not necessarily be truly valuable answers, but it may be that their answers are in line with the psychology of more individuals.

For example, regarding political views, after registration is opened, extreme views will be more agreed.

Simply put, completely opening up user registration restrictions will lead to a decline in the quality of the Q&A community. If Harvard recruits students for all college students, its value will decrease, and it cannot guarantee that every graduate's level is above a certain line."

Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wells were quickly convinced because the online encyclopedia they had made before Nupedia was a purely academic online encyclopedia, and at least they had to be a Ph.D.

They naturally agree with this kind of elite community and raising the threshold.

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

As a result, Zhou Xin's thoughts on this matter were more deeply thought about than both of them.

Zhou Xin has considered many points that they did not consider.

Jimmy Wells and Larry Sanger looked at each other, and they both knew what each other was thinking: Newman is worthy of being Newman.

Jimmy Wells also had a question: "What if we don't open user registration permissions on a large scale, what should we do if other knowledge Q&A communities that plagiarize our model take advantage of this wave of craze and attract these users away?"

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

Larry Sanger is also worried about this issue.

This is a typical mentality of wanting to be a ** and establishing a **. I don’t want to open registration permissions to all users, and I don’t want users to go to similar knowledge Q&A communities to enjoy similar services.

Zhou Xin asked back: "If we let go of user registration, can other Internet companies not conduct knowledge Q&A communities?

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

Many times, slow means fast.”

I was lazy again. I originally wanted to write 6k for the purpose of saving manuscripts on the shelves, but I sat in front of the computer and played for more than two hours before I started writing.

My procrastination is too serious...

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