What is Zhihu used for?

Zhihu is an online question and answer community that connects users from all walks of life. Users share their knowledge, experiences, and insights with each other, providing a constant stream of diverse information on the Chinese Internet.

Precisely speaking, Zhihu is more like a forum: users engage in relevant discussions around a particular topic of interest, while being able to follow people with the same interests. For conceptual explanations, the online encyclopedia covers almost all your queries; but for the integration of divergent thinking, it's one of Zhihu's specialties.

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User experience

1. To be precise, Zhihu is more like a forum. A forum: users have discussions around a topic of interest, and you can follow people who share your interests. For conceptual explanations, the online encyclopedia covers almost all of your questions; but for the integration of divergent thinking, it is a major feature of Zhihu. Zhihu encourages discussion during the Q&A process to broaden the dispersion of questions. It encourages non-targeted answers and Wiki referability of answers.

2. More exclusive than the forum, every registered user in Zhihu has a PR (Person Rank), and every action you take will directly affect your personal PR value. When answering, the answers are sorted by the number of approval votes, and if the number of approval votes is the same, the answers are sorted by the PR value of the individual, while hiding the answers that are considered invalid. This filters out a fair amount of spam.

3. Zhihu once insisted on a strict invitation system to ensure the authenticity of the user's quasi-real-name identity and to avoid generating too much spam. Quasi-real names can facilitate users to target questions to the people you are interested in, this is when Han Han aborted the "Soloists" in a quite interesting column, "all people ask all people", in other words, this is the real version of Zhihu. At the same time, Zhihu's strict invitation system also makes Zhihu shrouded in a rich atmosphere of rigor, represented by keso, not to speak, a word to convince people.

4, credit-based SNS relationship. The company's social networking program is a credit-based SNS, and it's probably more likely that the integration of SNS and Q&A will lead to the rapid development of the domestic RenRen network; however, as mentioned earlier, the strict invitation system excludes a significant portion of the invalid information; if RenRen also launches a social Q&A program, it's bound to integrate your original friends, which are obviously not likely to be people interested in your concerns. That pretty much negates the possibility of any major Internet company getting into Quora.

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