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Type of site | Q & A Political Internet forum |
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Available in | Chinese |
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Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | November 2018 |
Current status | Operating |
Pincong | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 品蔥 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 品葱 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Tasting of onion | ||||||||||||
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Pincong ( Chinese: 品蔥) is a Chinese-language internet forum and Q&A website primarily used to discuss politics and adjacent topics. Its users are mainly overseas Chinese people and Chinese netizens who have circumvented the Great Firewall. [1] [2]
The "old Pincong" was founded in 2017, but closed down on 30 October, 2018. A new team launched "new Pincong" shortly after. [1]
The literal translation of Pincong ( Chinese: 品蔥) means "tasting of onion". [3] Users of this forum are called "Pincongers" (品蔥人).
While the website does not explicitly market itself as a political forum, the site's users primarily hold discussions on political issues. Pincong's server is located in United States, [1] and as a result, the site is currently blocked by the Great Firewall of Mainland China. [2] [4]
The website's interface is written in Simplified Chinese. [5]
To protect users' safety, the server does not record IP addresses nor does the site require an email address or phone number for registration.
Pincong allows its users to schedule send forum posts and replies in the event that users wish to delay the posting of their content to a later time and date.
The default search engine throughout the website is DuckDuckGo.[ citation needed] Pincong users self-report safer experiences accessing the Pincong mobile site using Apple's iOS than the Android operating system found on most smartphones. [6]
Other features of Pincong include open source website architecture, transparent background data, and anonymous private messaging.
Pincong users may be promoted to an administrator status through a voting process conducted by experienced users. As users contribute to discussions within the website, they may accumulate points of approval or disapproval in the form of a reputation system found on similar sites such as Reddit's Karma mechanic. [7]
Upon the accumulation of enough points, users with enough reputation are granted "foreground" admin permissions such as banning users who violate sitewide rules, or expanding and hiding posts. Users with particularly high reputation may be granted extended administrator privileges such as proposals to change sitewide rules, but only fellow administrators may vote on these proposals' adoption. [8]
A majority of its users are from China, but communities of users from Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries/regions exist. [5] Pincong's Mainland China users must access the site with a Virtual Private Network ( VPN) as the domain is blocked under the country's Great Firewall ban of numerous foreign websites. [6] As a result, Mainland Chinese users openly share technical experiences regarding internet censorship circumvention. [9]
According to Quartz, Pincong users mostly identify as politically liberal. [10] Some of its users come from Douban. [2]
![]() | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
notability guideline for web content. (August 2023) |
Type of site | Q & A Political Internet forum |
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Available in | Chinese |
URL |
|
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | November 2018 |
Current status | Operating |
Pincong | |||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 品蔥 | ||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 品葱 | ||||||||||||
Literal meaning | Tasting of onion | ||||||||||||
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Pincong ( Chinese: 品蔥) is a Chinese-language internet forum and Q&A website primarily used to discuss politics and adjacent topics. Its users are mainly overseas Chinese people and Chinese netizens who have circumvented the Great Firewall. [1] [2]
The "old Pincong" was founded in 2017, but closed down on 30 October, 2018. A new team launched "new Pincong" shortly after. [1]
The literal translation of Pincong ( Chinese: 品蔥) means "tasting of onion". [3] Users of this forum are called "Pincongers" (品蔥人).
While the website does not explicitly market itself as a political forum, the site's users primarily hold discussions on political issues. Pincong's server is located in United States, [1] and as a result, the site is currently blocked by the Great Firewall of Mainland China. [2] [4]
The website's interface is written in Simplified Chinese. [5]
To protect users' safety, the server does not record IP addresses nor does the site require an email address or phone number for registration.
Pincong allows its users to schedule send forum posts and replies in the event that users wish to delay the posting of their content to a later time and date.
The default search engine throughout the website is DuckDuckGo.[ citation needed] Pincong users self-report safer experiences accessing the Pincong mobile site using Apple's iOS than the Android operating system found on most smartphones. [6]
Other features of Pincong include open source website architecture, transparent background data, and anonymous private messaging.
Pincong users may be promoted to an administrator status through a voting process conducted by experienced users. As users contribute to discussions within the website, they may accumulate points of approval or disapproval in the form of a reputation system found on similar sites such as Reddit's Karma mechanic. [7]
Upon the accumulation of enough points, users with enough reputation are granted "foreground" admin permissions such as banning users who violate sitewide rules, or expanding and hiding posts. Users with particularly high reputation may be granted extended administrator privileges such as proposals to change sitewide rules, but only fellow administrators may vote on these proposals' adoption. [8]
A majority of its users are from China, but communities of users from Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries/regions exist. [5] Pincong's Mainland China users must access the site with a Virtual Private Network ( VPN) as the domain is blocked under the country's Great Firewall ban of numerous foreign websites. [6] As a result, Mainland Chinese users openly share technical experiences regarding internet censorship circumvention. [9]
According to Quartz, Pincong users mostly identify as politically liberal. [10] Some of its users come from Douban. [2]