Zhihu Mods Caught Red-Handed Distorting FGO Fes Coverage — Ban Anyone Who Tries to Fix It, Players Dub the Platform 'MiHu' (miHoYo-Hu)

When a platform's moderators are simultaneously the referee and one of the players — banning and deleting based on ideology rather than rules — you might call it a conspiracy theory. Except this time, there are screenshots.

A player recently dropped a bombshell on NGA, exposing a pattern of systematic bias in Zhihu's (China's Quora-equivalent) gaming section moderation. The core allegation: someone maliciously edited Zhihu answers about the FGO (Fate/Grand Order) Fes convention event, twisting descriptions from 'attending the FGO event' to 'just passing through' and 'dragging luggage to the next exhibition.' The editor also deleted on-site photos that other users had posted as evidence.

But the real kicker came next. When other users discovered the tampering and tried to revert the edits to restore the truth, Zhihu moderators applied a Kafkaesque double standard: reporting the malicious edits — 'no violation found.' Reverting those same edits — violation! Editing privileges revoked. In effect, the platform was saying: 'Falsifying facts? A-OK. Restoring facts? That's a ban.'

The OP nailed it with one line: 'The root cause of Zhihu gaming section's toxicity is deliberately cultivated by Zhihu's own management.' This sentiment resonated hard across the comment section.

NGA users responded almost unanimously. One top-voted comment read: 'miHoYo really does spare no expense on community management' — implying paid influence behind the scenes. Another quipped: 'Zhihu has already been molded into the shape of its sugar daddy,' suggesting the platform has become a mouthpiece for whoever's writing the checks.

Most commenters treated this as old news. 'Wasn't Zhihu always known as MiHu? Not surprised at all,' and 'Isn't Zhihu's gaming section kissing up to miHoYo just common knowledge?' — the nickname 'MiHu' (a portmanteau of miHoYo and Zhihu) has long been cemented in gaming communities to describe the platform's alleged systemic favoritism toward one particular company. Others shot back: 'What self-respecting gamer even reads MiHu?'

Someone even shared a screenshot showing Zhihu's stock price dipping below $1 USD — a not-so-subtle jab that the once-prominent Q&A platform is now circling the drain financially. A broader-scope comment summed it up philosophically: 'Content platforms that don't produce content are destined to become the next Baidu. When you're just an ad company selling users to advertisers, why bother creating anything yourself?'

One user compared Zhihu to NGA: 'Normal people read NiTan (NGA's self-deprecating nickname),' but was immediately countered with: 'They're each dysfunctional in their own way — at least NiTan occasionally has the energy for real debate. MiHu, on the other hand...' — the implication being that while NGA is chaotic, it at least has a culture of discussion, whereas Zhihu has lost even that foundation.

As of now, the post has sparked widespread discussion on NGA, and Zhihu has yet to respond to any of the allegations. Given the platform's already rock-bottom reputation among gamers, this exposé is arguably just another nail in the coffin. As for those users who had their editing privileges revoked — in MiHu's rulebook, telling the truth apparently counts as a violation.