Zhihu official announcement： Anonymous function will be offline! It was reported by the founder of Yiou. com in real name, and it was controversial for many times because of anonymous posting by users

On July 7th, Zhihu’s official account announced that Zhihu’s anonymous function would be offline.

Zhihu said that as an early product mechanism in the community, the original intention of anonymous function was based on users’ open discussion and friendly interaction. However, with the increasingly complex internet communication environment, Zhihu has completed the offline development of anonymous function in the latest version of App and submitted it to major application stores for review in the near future.It is expected that the major application stores will be launched on July 14th, and the anonymous function will be officially launched on the new and old versions of App and PC.By then,Anonymous publishing portal will be cancelled.,Users will not be able to create questions anonymously or publish content anonymously. For historical anonymous content, users can choose whether to turn it into real name.

Zhihu is opposed to fabricating false information and maliciously slandering others. Regardless of whether the content is anonymous or not, it is also supervised and managed by the Knowledge Community Code, and creators should be responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of their published content. If there is illegal information in the content, the platform will deal with it according to the specific content violation category. We hope that the creators can continue to uphold the "serious, professional and friendly" creative attitude and create in their true identities. In April this year, we launched professional identity authentication, so that friends can authenticate more conveniently, make the content more professional, make the expression more real and share their knowledge, experience and opinions better.

Recently, some media reported that the anonymity function of platforms such as Zhihu reduced the cost of rumors. In response, Kelly Y Zhou, founder and CEO of Zhihu, said: "My team and I are rethinking the privacy protection and benign discussion mechanism, and the specific adjustment measures for the anonymity function will be released in the near future."

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On June 22nd, Kelly Y Zhou responded to the recent dispute about anonymity in Zhihu in a circle of friends. Kelly Y Zhou said that the original intention of anonymous function is to maintain an open discussion community environment, where users share their personal experiences without personal privacy concerns. In today’s complicated communication environment, this mechanism has also caused more and more troubles, and Zhihu will make changes.

Kelly Y Zhou made a statement in a circle of friends. Image source: screenshot of Kelly Y Zhou circle of friends

"My team and I are rethinking the privacy protection and benign discussion mechanism, and specific adjustment measures for the anonymity function will be released in the near future. We have also been strengthening the governance of community content and optimizing the handling process of user reports. Under the compliance and formal channels, the butler will respond to everyone in time.

Zhihu accepted criticism, and the community remained open to discussions about Zhihu. But the community does not welcome personal attacks and rumors, whether anonymous or not. "

On June 21st, Huang Yuanpu, the founder of Yiou.com, published an open letter, reporting Zhihu and Kelly Y Zhou, the founder of Zhihu.

Huang Yuanpu’s open letter mentioned that Zhihu’s last "100 million euros Huang Yuanpu will run away with money?" The problem made him angry. In response to Zhihu’s anonymous answer to himself, Huang Yuanpu sent a message to Kelly Y Zhou and made suggestions:

"I have the WeChat of Kelly Y Zhou, the founder of Zhihu. He had to do an offline activity before and asked me for the WeChat of my former boss of Meituan; Although I have been criticized by name on Zhihu for many times, I have never had the nerve to find a lesbian relationship with Kelly Y Zhou.But the rumor of "allegedly" made me very angry. I sent Kelly Y Zhou two pieces of information and made suggestions:Can I turn on the disproof function? If you can prove that anonymous users are making rumors, you can publish the information of the rumor maker, which will make the anonymous poster more cautious."

"After sending a message in the evening, I haven’t seen Kelly Y Zhou reply the next day. I feel that I have been bullied by Zhihu, and I once introduced him to contacts. I think Kelly Y Zhou should give me a little face, so I can reply. I admit that I think highly of myself (reflect on myself). Kelly Y Zhou is busy and has no obligation to reply to me. But in my anger,I deleted Kelly Y Zhou’s WeChat after writing something like’ Mind your own business and you will get what you deserve’."

Huang Yuanpu said that what he wanted was a change in the platform of Zhihu.Adjust the platform rules to be more fair and reasonable, and remain anonymous, but we should use real-name registration system+rumor accountability mechanism to make the rumor maker bear the cost. Huang Yuanpu also said that Kelly Y Zhou and Zhihu will continue to be reported to relevant departments in real names until Zhihu changes the current mechanism.

On June 20th, the founder of Yiou. com, Huang Yuanpu, posted a message in the circle of friends on WeChat on the 20th, criticizing Zhihu’s anonymous libel phenomenon and its disproof rules.

It is reported that the cause of this incident is that some netizens recently published content anonymously in Zhihu,Huang Yuanpu once paid for the "Shanghai Youth May 4th Medal" and was admitted to the Business School of new york University.

In this regard, Huang Yuanpu said that it is acceptable to accept objective negative comments, but it is necessary to take action against defamation.

He said that he reflected this problem to Kelly Y Zhou, the founder of Zhihu. "I can’t help but send a message to Kelly Y Zhou and say:Can you get a disproof function, and if it is proved that anonymous people slander, their identities will be made public? "But the other side ignored.

Huang Yuanpu immediately deleted the other party’s WeChat out of anger, and then in the circle of friends, he criticized Kelly Y Zhou in the form of "anonymous slander" similar to his own in Zhihu. Among them, he mentioned, "Kelly Y Zhou, as a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, I will continue to report to Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference about Zhihu founded by Kelly Y Zhou. What has become of this platform? Don’t I have any idea? Is there fair treatment for entrepreneurs? "

In January of this year,The "18.88 million price bride price" incident caused widespread concern inside and outside the station, and the net post that caused the discussion came from Zhihu..

According to Jinan Times, in this answer, an anonymous user claimed to be a "indigenous" middle class in Shanghai. When studying in the United States, she met and fell in love with a female student from Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province, and finally broke up because of the wedding bride price. The anonymous user said that his ex-girlfriend’s parents asked him for a bride price of 18.88 million yuan, tens of millions of properties were transferred to the woman’s name, and hundreds of relatives of the woman each gave a red envelope of 100,000 yuan, which he could not accept.

The post quickly triggered a discussion about the "high price bride price", and some netizens questioned the authenticity of the post.

On January 13th, Zhihu Xiaoguanjia, the official account of Zhihu Platform, announced that it had been checked for the first time, and the relevant content came from an anonymous user’s reply published on October 16th, 2022.The answer was revised as an apology statement by the publisher on January 12, 2023, admitting the fabricated facts..

Zhihu butler said, we further checked the content published in the past, and found that the user published the content in a contradictory capacity. According to the "Knowledge Community Code", the user has made up false or misleading backgrounds and plots, deceiving and misleading others, which has caused serious consequences. The platform decided to permanently ban the user account.

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Earlier, The Paper also reported that Zhang Ming (pseudonym), a graduate student from a university in Beijing, published an evaluation of the "liberal arts postgraduate entrance examination network" (hereinafter referred to as "Wenkao network") in the message area of Zhihu, and he was sued to the court together with another netizen "Ma Qian".

According to reports, Zhang Ming introduced that he bought the retest class of Wenkao.com in February 2020. After the course, he thought the quality of the course was average. After more than a month,Under the topic of "How about Wenkao.com" in Zhihu, he anonymously commented that "… Wenkao is eyeing up on WeChat, and whoever dares to use his real name will be violently attacked by the Internet …"

The court held that the words "eyeing" and "cyber violence" in Zhang Ming’s above remarks insulted or slandered the plaintiff, which constituted an infringement of reputation rights. "Ma Qian" also made an infringement on the right of reputation by commenting on the words "rotten, free of charge, disgusting, etc." in Wenkao.com’s speech.

It is worth noting that the platform knows that the network has also been brought to court. The plaintiff Wenkao. com said that besides the two defendants, several anonymous users posted similar comments on Zhihu, which was a rumor, slander and slander of Wenkao. com by users in Zhihu, which brought reputation and economic losses. The plaintiff asked Zhihu to delete it, but it was delayed.After the plaintiff brought Zhihu to court, the latter deleted the relevant remarks, so the plaintiff gave up his claim against Zhihu..

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