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| − | '''Baidu Tieba''' (Chinese: 百度贴吧; pinyin: bǎidù tiēbā; lit. 'Baidu Post Bar') is the most used Chinese communication platform, hosted by the Chinese web services company Baidu. Baidu Tieba was established on December 3, 2003. It is an online community that heavily integrates Baidu's search engine. Users may search for a topic of interest forum known as a "bar" which will then be created if it does not exist already. Baidu Tieba accumulated over 300 million monthly active users by 2015, and the number of its total registered users reached 1.5 billion. As of June 6, 2021, Baidu Tieba has 23,254,173 communities.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba, Baidu Tieba - Wiki</ref> | + | '''Baidu Tieba''' (Chinese: 百度贴吧; pinyin: bǎidù tiēbā; lit. 'Baidu Post Bar') is the most used Chinese communication platform, hosted by the Chinese web services company Baidu. Baidu Tieba was established on December 3, 2003. It is an online community that heavily integrates Baidu's search engine. Users may search for a topic of interest forum known as a "bar" which will then be created if it does not exist already. Baidu Tieba accumulated over 300 million monthly active users by 2015, and the number of its total registered users reached 1.5 billion. As of June 6, 2021, Baidu Tieba has 23,254,173 communities. Baidu Tieba uses forums called bars as a place for users to socially interact. The slogan of Baidu Tieba is "Born for your interest" (Chinese: 为兴趣而生). As of 2014, there were more than eight million bars, mostly created by fans, which covered a variety of topics, such as celebrities, films, comics, and books. More than one billion posts have been published in these bars. According to Alexa Internet, traffic to Baidu Tieba makes up more than 10% of the total traffic to Baidu properties.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba, Baidu Tieba - Wiki</ref> |
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| − | + | On November 25, 2003, Baidu Tieba began internal testing. It was released to the public on December 3, 2003. | |
| − | + | It is a completely user-driven network service. The idea of the paste bar came from Yu Jun, Baidu's Chief Product Designer. Around the same time, the paste bar was combined with the Baidu search engine, to build an online communication platform, letting people communicate to those with similar interests. | |
| − | + | On February 25, 2005, Barzhu Bar became an official platform of Baidu Tieba, and was used for communication between the owners of different bars.[citation needed] | |
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| − | + | On April 15, 2009, Tieba Cloud was integrated into Baidu Tieba.[citation needed] | |
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| − | + | In 2012, Baidu Tieba updated its interface, switching from a simple reply-by-sequence user interface, into a more complicated reply-in-same-floor one. Along with the new interface, new functionalities such as rankings, more expressive pictures, and allowing administrators to change the background images of Tieba, were also implemented.[citation needed] | |
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| − | + | On May 13, 2019, topics posted in Baidu Tieba before January 1, 2017 were hidden. A Baidu official said that the topics are hidden temporarily due to “system maintenance”.[7] The maintenance duration is about 1 month. | |
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Baidu Tieba (Chinese: 百度贴吧; pinyin: bǎidù tiēbā; lit. 'Baidu Post Bar') is the most used Chinese communication platform, hosted by the Chinese web services company Baidu. Baidu Tieba was established on December 3, 2003. It is an online community that heavily integrates Baidu's search engine. Users may search for a topic of interest forum known as a "bar" which will then be created if it does not exist already. Baidu Tieba accumulated over 300 million monthly active users by 2015, and the number of its total registered users reached 1.5 billion. As of June 6, 2021, Baidu Tieba has 23,254,173 communities. Baidu Tieba uses forums called bars as a place for users to socially interact. The slogan of Baidu Tieba is "Born for your interest" (Chinese: 为兴趣而生). As of 2014, there were more than eight million bars, mostly created by fans, which covered a variety of topics, such as celebrities, films, comics, and books. More than one billion posts have been published in these bars. According to Alexa Internet, traffic to Baidu Tieba makes up more than 10% of the total traffic to Baidu properties.[1]
Contents
History
On November 25, 2003, Baidu Tieba began internal testing. It was released to the public on December 3, 2003.
It is a completely user-driven network service. The idea of the paste bar came from Yu Jun, Baidu's Chief Product Designer. Around the same time, the paste bar was combined with the Baidu search engine, to build an online communication platform, letting people communicate to those with similar interests.
On February 25, 2005, Barzhu Bar became an official platform of Baidu Tieba, and was used for communication between the owners of different bars.[citation needed]
On April 15, 2009, Tieba Cloud was integrated into Baidu Tieba.[citation needed]
In 2012, Baidu Tieba updated its interface, switching from a simple reply-by-sequence user interface, into a more complicated reply-in-same-floor one. Along with the new interface, new functionalities such as rankings, more expressive pictures, and allowing administrators to change the background images of Tieba, were also implemented.[citation needed]
On May 13, 2019, topics posted in Baidu Tieba before January 1, 2017 were hidden. A Baidu official said that the topics are hidden temporarily due to “system maintenance”.[7] The maintenance duration is about 1 month.
Baidu Tieba has become a popular comprehensive forum in China, with a large number of users actively posting, replying to each other, and interacting with each other.[2]
Functions
Every bar can have up to three masters, thirty vice-masters, and ten video-masters to manage uploaded videos. Users can post, at most, ten pictures and one video quoted from certain broadcast websites. Users cannot edit any published posts. However, users can delete their own published posts and comments from other users on their posts. Beyond regular text posts, Baidu Tieba allows for the use of polls. Every bar has its own 2GB space for members to upload videos. If a bar is ranked within the top 500 of the official rankings, it has its own album.
Prior to 2010, Baidu Tieba allowed anonymous posting, displaying only the IP address of the poster. Since then, users are required to have a registered account in order to post on bars. It is illegal in China to publish rumors which "threaten the social order", a crime punishable by up to 7 years jail. The onus is on service providers to police and remove such content. Baidu Tieba is no exception and warns users against the dangers of spreading false information, suggesting it is done for notoriety as well as commercial and political gain. [3]
Ethical Issues
Search Engine
Disclaimer
In view of the fact that Baidu automatically generates links to third-party web pages according to the keywords you type by non-manual search, in addition to the terms of service specified by Baidu, Baidu is not responsible for any accidents, negligence, infringement, and losses caused by using Baidu (including computer virus infection caused by downloading the content of the third-party website to which the search link is linked). Any third-party webpages linked to by Baidu searches are created or provided by others, and Baidu does not endorse the content or position of the third-party webpages linked to by the search. [4]
Baidu respects and protects the personal privacy rights of all Baidu users. Your registered user name, email address, and other personal information will not be disclosed to third parties without your explicit permission or in accordance with the mandatory provisions of applicable laws and regulations. Baidu reminds you that the keyword you enter into a search engine will not be considered personal privacy information. [4]
Death of Wei Zexi
Baidu responded to the "weizexi incident" starting from a Q&A community. Weizexi, a computer student at Xi'an University of electronic technology, learned that he had a synovial sarcoma after a physical examination two years ago. According to WeiZeXi's pre-life description, the disease is "a very terrible soft tissue tumor, and there is no effective treatment except for the latest research and development and the technology in clinical experiments." After learning about "the second hospital of the armed police Beijing corps" through Baidu search and CCTV, Wei Zexi's parents went to the hospital for investigation and was told by the doctor surnamed Li that it could be treated. So Wei Zexi began to work in the armed police Beijing Corps The second hospital has four times of treatment.[5] but the treatments proved unsuccessful, and Wei died on April 12, 2016. Before his death, Wei accused Baidu of promoting false medical information, and he denounced the hospital for claiming high success rates for the treatment.[6]
From an economic standpoint, Baidu has transitioned from an "emerging" internet enterprise to an "oligarch", as a direct result of the ban on Google.[7] This kind of phenomenon can be defined as eliminating competition through the issuance of decrees that violate the objective laws of the economy, resulting in market imbalance. In the lack of supervision, it is not surprising that a search engine company can expand its business to the medical consulting industry and produce adverse consequences.
Online Community
Commercialization of Tieba
Baidu sold the hemophilia online community to unqualified hospitals. This community was founded by a user with the nickname "Mayicai". "Mayicai" said about 5,000 netizens use this online community to discuss and share effective treatments for hemophilia on Tieba.[8] The new owner of this community with the nickname “hemophilia expert” posted that he had formed a consulting team with "a number of experts related to hemophilia to accurately answer the questions of patients". He explained his previous behavior of deleting posts of other people and claimed that he was entrusted by Baidu company to manage the community. Most of the medical staff in the consultant team of "hemophilia experts" come from a medical institution in Xi'an. One of them is “Professor” Shanxi Liu, the president of the hemophilia Research Institute of Shaanxi Medical University, who was reported by hemophilia bar netizens many times in April 2014. “Professor” Liu was later proved to be a liar.[9]
Tieba is Baidu's product, the real economy market does not have the law to stipulate that Baidu cannot sell its own products. However, the volume of the Tieba is large with hundreds of millions of users. When such a large product appears, it will produce uneconomic behavior. It is called internal diseconomy in economics. Internal uneconomic refers to the asymmetry of information caused by the strength of one party during the transaction. The cost outside the contract caused is borne by the party without information, which is not in line with the principle of equality of market economy. During the commercialization of Tieba, Baidu is the seller, because it controls the management right of the Tieba, and the users of Tieba do not have this right. This difference forms information asymmetry, such as the actual controller of the post-bar (Baidu knows that who is the controller, while the users do not). This information asymmetry makes the users of this community bear additional costs, such as medical risks.
On July 7, 2016, Baidu officially confirmed that it will no longer sell forum moderation rights for its online discussion platform, Tieba, in response to this whole event.[10]
See Also
External Links
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba, Baidu Tieba - Wiki
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba, History of Baidu Tieba - Wiki
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baidu_Tieba, Functions of Baidu Tieba - Wiki
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Baidu "Disclaimer"
- ↑ CEO of China's Baidu summoned over student death. Yahoo Finance, May 3, 2016.
- ↑ China to investigate Baidu over student's death, shares dive. Xinhua. May 3, 2016.
- ↑ China condemns decision by Google to lift censorship. BBC News, 23 March 2010.
- ↑ Baidu to halt commercialization of Tieba health forums. ChinaDaily. 1 Jan, 2016.
- ↑ Baidu Gives Up on Commercializing Tieba Forums. Sixth Tone. Jul 28, 2016.
- ↑ Agent talks at impasse as Baidu moves to end Tieba commercialization as part of its search overhaul. Global Times. Aug 3, 2016.
