points by kiki1124 6 years ago

Because this topic is becoming one of the hottest topic in Chinese ask and answer platform “zhihu”. I realized some answers mentioned this website because one of the authors in paper answers some questions. The answers from the author of the paper enraged us，because his explainnation was ridiculous and full of prejudice. As a email unfriendly country, even though Chinese may have email address, it doesn’t mean we want to use it in normal life. Besides, as far as I know, most people work in recipotions do not even have a email from the work place. Another answer is about japan， it is even more ridiculous. China and japan share a similar culture, the authors exclude japan because they found people will give the wallet to police booth. In china we usually give the wallet to lost and found box. I do not see the difference between police office and the box at all. Those are the main questions Chinese want to ask, and we need a answer. Sorry for leaving so many similar comments below this topic, but we want a reasonable answer.

dang 6 years ago

Thanks for the information. So what happened is that the paper became a hot topic in a Chinese discussion forum, and some people there linked to this Hacker News thread because one of the authors was commenting here? Please correct me if I've misunderstood.

I'd never heard of Zhihu. When you say it's a question-and-answer forum, that makes me think of Quora. I wonder how it would compare to that, or even to HN.

  • kiki1124 6 years ago

    Yes， Zhihu is like a Chinese version Quora. I do not know why others come here to express their opinions. For me, because I feel it is rude and inappropriate to send a email to the author, that is why I choose HN for seeking the answers(Hoping author may read my questions and answer me). About Zhihu, I would say more commercial than Quora, reddit and HN. A lot pepole run their account as business, for example write novels, sale clothes, psychological counseling... And there are a lot high educated people answer questions from many different fields. Otherwise most Chinese would not even realize this paper in Science.