Absrtact: Most fans can't go to South Africa to feel the atmosphere like tao them, but they can still gather for fun on social networking sites and microblogs. The emergence of social networking sites and microblogs and the smooth flow of live webcasts have made this year's World Cup and 4 years ago a big
The size of the site quiz hot virtual currency change "chips"
The expert sees the doorway, the layman looks lively. For senior fans, predicting winners and losers, scores and even goal-scoring heroes can bring great pleasure. Therefore, the size of the site are aimed at this mentality, have launched the World Cup quiz activities to attract popularity.
Big website Prize Virtual currency Small forum with virtual currency betting
Reporter survey found that after the World Cup opening, many well-known domestic portal sites have launched the World Cup Quiz column, only the reporter found that there are twenty or thirty, these activities through the virtual currency guessing way, to attract netizens and fans to participate. For example, the Sina online can win points for gifts, in the network and other social networking sites, the more friends to support the prediction can get higher returns. Prizes are also diverse, many sites such as Tencent will reward the Q currency, such as virtual currency or forum points, also has many websites to launch the kind prize, these prizes for the factory sponsorship product, the common has the happy net to provide the celebration football as well as the ball clothing and so on souvenirs, also has the Tencent network to depart the motorcycle award, as well as each kind of digital product and the souvenir and so on.
Although a lot of small and medium-sized websites, forums can not be like many large web sites that open rich prizes, but in order to their own forum virtual currency for the prizes of the quiz activities to attract popularity. The quiz of these forums, many by moderators or forum Reds host, participate in users to first Use forum virtual currency betting, once the prediction is accurate, you can set the rules and play to win the virtual currency.
A participant in the "Cool Guangzhou Forum" Quiz Netizen told reporters, most of the virtual currency guessing game is to join in the fun, because these virtual currency can not change what, most of the forum props, at most, there are a small part of the smaller electronic products. Reporters saw that the forum's netizens won the quiz, the return is only the upgrade of the user level.
Owners Forum "bank" owners "lending" play Quiz
Tianhe Garden Owners Forum Virtual currency "Paste" in the community is very popular, ordinary neighbors to buy and sell small things, often take "ointment" when the money, neighbors help each other, also like to express gratitude. With the advent of the World Cup, "cream" naturally became the first prize for football quiz. Reporters in the Forum of the World Cup quiz on the special post, not only the details of the quiz is very detailed professional, the owners of the enthusiastic participation is also very high. Not only each quiz prizes, after the World Cup, the highest hit owners will also receive 3000 "Paste" additional rewards.
In addition, in order to make the owners more enjoyable, the forum's "Paste Bank" also opened during the World Cup, owners can borrow "paste" play game, win the owner, to "Paste bank" to pay 10% "interest" as a return; the lost owners as long as in a week by posting and so on to earn enough "ointment" to pay off, you can " Interest-free ". An owner told the reporter, took out real gold and silver to buy lottery, inevitably, the risk of illegal betting on the big, not to mention, the community forum of such wonderful activities not only stimulate the actual loss, but also won the "Cream" will eventually be used in the community of virtual consumption, objectively and enhance the contact of everyone.
Save popularity, grab prizes over tens of thousands of netizens hot game quiz
In all the website quiz, Tencent's participation in the quiz activity is quite high, from the beginning to the Saturday morning, the number of participants in the quiz has exceeded tens of millions. and social networking sites, such as happy net, there are more than 2 million players to participate. People who live in Tianhe District and South Garden, Mr. Gao told reporters that he and his colleagues have participated in the quiz of Baidu Bar, although they are fans of Spain, but in order to and colleagues in anger, he cast a vote for Switzerland. As a result, the tournament broke out of the World Cup's biggest upset-the Swiss team won, Mr. Gao's prediction so many netizens have left a message praised, "It is too cow!" "Professional player! "He was very pleased with the words of praise.
Reporter also found in many forums, netizens also for different sites of the quiz activities launched a variety of quiz raiders. These raiders, word are to "who unpopular vote who", because only betting the unpopular team can get higher odds. Guessing failed users lost the virtual currency, only by constantly in the forum or paste on the irrigation to return to the points, and then exchanged into the virtual currency to participate in the quiz. So, in the Baidu Bar, there has been a large number of "I also want to ' beans ' (that is, Baidu bar of the virtual currency), 15 words brush ' peas '" such as the drip message, since the World Cup Baidu Bar irrigation, brush screen phenomenon increased.
However, there are a lot of fans are not interested in winning the virtual currency, they are more like on the social networking site between friends to start a quiz. Who lives in Haizhu District and near Mr. Huang says he and friends in the happy net on a quiz World Cup, although this social networking site gifts are most of the site game equipment, far less than the portal so "ferocious", but this in the circle of friends to play the quiz, the higher hit rate will get friends more attention, Not for the prize, but also to increase their popularity on social networking sites.
In fact, with the World Cup, those who scored better results, also became a lot of people's betting vane and popular red. Baidu Bar World Cup quiz currently (as of June 19 morning) ranked first Netizen "squander your romantic", because of the performance of the quiz, many Baidu netizens are called "Prophecy Emperor". Only Spain against the Swiss game, the Netizen won more than 100 million virtual coins, and in the subsequent German game against Serbia, again made a pot full. Many netizens have posted a message to him to consult, or "add concern" at any time to pay attention to his betting situation, he was in the bar in the popularity immediately soared.
Virtual Quiz big hit the Edge
Compared to 2006, the World Cup during this year to carry out virtual currency quiz site doubled growth. Although the prizes are only virtual coins, but many virtual coins can be easily exchanged for cash, and some virtual coins such as the "Cream" of the garden can sometimes be directly as money to make. In addition, the reporter found that a lot of lottery purchase website also launched a virtual currency quiz, one of the Web site awards virtual currency at the end of the World Cup can be converted to a certain ratio of "color gold", "Cai Jin" can buy lottery tickets on the site, for those who buy lottery tickets on the website, the winning virtual currency and cash prizes are not very different. Therefore, there are many netizens questioned these guessing activities are playing the ball game, but also some netizens believe that the current six or seven of the site and forum rewards only virtual coins, forum props, game equipment, in disguise, or a small number of bets.
To this end, the reporter interviewed the Guangdong Dellan law firm Du Yuming lawyer. Du Yuming said that, as long as the result of the adoption of a special benefit, is gambling. Therefore, whether it is a large site to provide large-scale quiz activities, or individual users in the forum on the private quiz, even if not cash as a reward, also belong to the gambling behavior, must accept the state supervision. However, due to the rapid development of the Internet, much more than the speed of legislation, the current network of virtual currency betting is not enough supervision.
In addition, for the nature of the virtual currency, Du Yuming that the virtual currency, like the currency in circulation, are valuable, and the virtual currency can also be used in exchange for the value-added services or exchange with other users, in fact, has the function of ordinary currency. This situation, similar to the once rage "purchase vouchers", for the stability of the country's financial order, there are potential shocks and risks.
However, according to the reporter understand, currently in the "Criminal law" and "public security management penalties," and gambling-related regulations, for the virtual currency guessing activity is not clear, the domestic mainstream web site recently almost all high-profile to carry out the quiz activity, there is no case has been stopped.