On January 10, a query appeared on Zhihu (知乎), a Chinese question-and-answer community similar to Quora, in which a user identified as “Ant Grass” (蚂蚁菜) — and claiming to be the former moderator of China’s second-largest online forum for sufferers from haemophilia — said that the web services company Baidu had unilaterally cancelled their moderator status in Baidu Forum, dropped in an “official” moderator, and replaced the entire team of forum regulators. Seeking an explanation from Baidu, they had received no response.
Another user responded that the current moderator of a well-known haemophilia chat forum, “Haemophilia Expert” (血友病专家), was in fact an unidentified party that had paid to have executive moderation status. Now, the user said, it “took spending money” to become a forum moderator. This allegation generated a great deal of debate and quickly became a hot topic that spilled over into the news.
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