How does Zhihu make money?

Let's talk about what I don't think is feasible As a new user who was strongly attracted by Zhihu and began to indulge,

First, the last thing I want is for Zhihu to become a community with hierarchy and currency.

I saw some answers advocating paid questions and answers and virtual gold coins. I really don't want this day to come.

I have been in Zhihu for less than a month, and the biggest feeling is that,

Every user will be recognized for answering questions carefully, and every user has the opportunity to learn from others.

This is an open and free forum.

Everyone can be a teacher and everyone can be a student.

If Zhihu starts to restrict free question and answer and free study by money or all other means,

Doesn't that mean "you are too ignorant/poor to understand this answer"?

Oh, no, I don't want Zhihu to be like this. I believe this is not Zhihu's original intention.

When everyone has a search question, when you click on a link in google and find it is a forum post, how many gold coins do you need to reply? Won't you turn it off right away? No ... will you register a number and earn gold coins slowly?

Second, I should instinctively resist any advertisement that appears in Zhihu …

Some people have complained before that Zhihu's pages are too monotonous. I would like to ask, when reading the complete works of Shakespeare, will you complain that the book is too monotonous? When reading professional books for non-beginners, do you want colorful pages?

Perhaps this is my pure request for Zhihu.

Thirdly, I am looking forward to the offline activities, but I also hope that the pages of offline activities can be separated enough from the original problem pages.

Let Zhihu not become a noisy community ~

I really can't agree with some opinions, such as @ Wu Haotian's answer.

First, really, Zhihu is not just a question-and-answer website that more and more people watch, but should have a far-sighted vision. Like Facebook, it didn't pay attention to profit from the beginning, in order to make human communication easier.

The idea of "human experience knowledge base" is really exciting.

Second, publishing should be a good way. I think it is of great value and significance to sort out Zhihu's questions and answers. Such a book will certainly benefit people a lot.

Third, we should be cautious about cooperation with recruitment and headhunting. Soon after coming to Zhihu, we found that this is really a good place to find talents. However, this will turn Zhihu into a talent agency, and if things involving interests are not handled properly, it will easily lead to disputes.

Because as a loyal user, I really hope that Zhihu will not have disputes and distortions because of interests.

Fourth, the foundation, which is a way to raise donated resources. Zhihu has benefited me a lot and changed me a lot. I'm willing to pay for Zhihu.

Finally, I hope Zhihu will get better and better, and I hope it can help Zhihu to get better.

Transferred from Xiao Lei, Zhihu