Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 613: Protective Suspension

"You've been busy with the short drama expansion overseas lately, right?"

Sitting in Xu Yun's office, Chen Yiyang was flipping through Xu Yun's usual work records while asking.

"Yes." Xu Yun said, somewhat nervously, "The current development strategy of Bilibili is to maintain the status quo, not blindly developing new projects.

The original Bilibili employees can handle these tasks well, so I haven't been managing too much."

After Chen Yiyang bought Bilibili, he conducted a round of purging.

Most of the original senior management were cleared out by Chen Yiyang.

The current management of Bilibili is from the original middle management level of Bilibili.

But even so, Chen Yiyang wasn't very reassured, so he had Xu Yun, who had nothing to do with Bilibili before, come over and serve as CEO of Bilibili.

Now, it seemed that Xu Yun wasn't very attentive to Bilibili.

He indeed completed Chen Yiyang's task of maintaining the status quo for Bilibili.

But that's about it.

However, it wasn't his fault because Xu Yun had previously stated that he wanted to focus on the short drama expansion overseas.

He had agreed to this.

This surely took away a lot of Xu Yun's energy.

"Actually, aside from chaotic meddling, Bilibili had quite a few drawbacks before."

Chen Yiyang said, "The gradual decline of a video platform isn't just due to those surface reasons.

The platform's users and content creators must have felt some inconvenience in using the platform.

This includes the recent discovery of frequent wrongful user account bans on Bilibili.

On the surface, this seems like a systemic loophole.

But every system has loopholes.

The point is, why would someone intentionally exploit this loophole to target an ordinary user?"

Chen Yiyang didn't believe it was just something people did out of boredom.

There must be related interests behind it.

So what role does Bilibili's current management play in this matter?

"How's the short drama expansion going recently?" Chen Yiyang asked, no longer inquiring about Bilibili, shifting to the short drama expansion project that Xu Yun was focused on.

"We currently have many collaborators in Japan and North America.

In these countries, localized short dramas are being rapidly filmed and pushed onto video platforms.

Currently, these short dramas are very popular. The next step is to export domestic short drama scripts, adapt them for local changes, and release them."

"The same kind of 'CEO falls in love with me' storylines?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Yes." Xu Yun nodded, "These breezy dramas are loved worldwide."

"Hmm, but be careful; the reviews there are lenient, and creators easily get carried away.

Don't end up with something like 'I became the cleaner in the White House and the Great Commander fell in love with me'—a melodramatic short drama.

If that happens, who knows, North America might protest us for maliciously tarnishing their leader's image."

"Uh, Mr. Chen, your imagination is rich." Xu Yun quickly replied.

"Since that's the case, prepare to resign as Bilibili's CEO soon. I'll invest in you to specifically set up an overseas short drama company, and you'll work there."

"No problem, Mr. Chen."

Upon hearing Chen Yiyang's plan to reassign him, Xu Yun instead showed a delighted expression.

Let anyone who wants to be the CEO of this troublesome Bilibili be it; he was really fed up with it.

After talking with Xu Yun, Chen Yiyang took Xu Yun to the meeting room.

By then, Bilibili's various management levels had been waiting for Chen Yiyang for some time.

Chen Yiyang sat down and immediately brought up the frequent wrongful user account bans, asking if anyone in attendance knew the reason behind it.

After Chen Yiyang finished speaking, these management tiers stared at each other for a long time before one person raised a hand.

"You speak." Chen Yiyang called on him to speak.

"It's like this, Mr. Chen. We've been aware of this issue of wrongful account bans for some time."

The manager responsible for a small department of Bilibili continued, "Because Bilibili users have levels.

Users who've been using the platform for longer have higher levels, and their speech has more weight than new users.

According to our review system, we do more frequent dynamic reviews of new users' speeches than older users.

So some groups hoping to use Bilibili accounts to post illegal content have targeted the accounts of some older users.

They'll select older user accounts that are originally not very active to focus on.

After becoming these users' fans, they'll frequently report the accounts.

According to our AI review system, the company will temporarily ban these accounts for thirty days as protection."

"Banning someone's account is called protecting them?" Chen Yiyang couldn't understand the logic.

"It's like this." The manager quickly explained.

"According to our initial idea, if an account is frequently reported by its fans, it must be because the account recently posted some highly controversial content.

Whether this content is legal or illegal, such content inevitably drives some netizens to debate the user's speech.

But online debates are hard to conclude, most debates will, in the continuous output of content from both sides, gradually intensify and turn into personal attacks.

At that point, both sides will produce lots of extreme rhetoric.

So our idea is that if a user is massively reported by its fans, it implies the user made extreme statements.

Since AI can only review banned words, it can't really confirm whether what the user posted is genuinely extreme.

Thus, we'll first ban this user for a month, preventing them from speaking further while closing their comment section to stop others from commenting on their posts.

This way, it avoids the situation from escalating further. After all, if we ban for a month, nobody would remember the issue afterwards.

In terms of network perspective, within a month, there can be dozens of hot topics that pique interest, let alone a user's speech.

So after a month, everyone will forget about it, Bilibili will automatically lift the account ban.

Everyone is happy.

"You just mentioned those illegal groups, what are they trying to do with the accounts?" Chen Yiyang continued asking.

"They intend to use these older user accounts to post some pornographic or fraudulent content.

Not only will other users believe it more when older users post these contents, but it'll also better bypass reviews.

So these illegal teams, once they target an older user, will frequently report the user's account leading it to multiple bans.

Thus, these older users will abandon their accounts due to frequent bans and stop logging in.

Once the illegal teams learn of this situation, they'll arrange for someone to hack the account and claim it as their own.