MOP (Chinese: 猫扑) is a Chinese bulletin board system (BBS). Though popular in China, it is often a source of controversy. The site was created in October 1997. There are 28 million users on MOP.猫扑和天涯虚拟社区覆盖近一半的网络社区用户，艾瑞市场咨询，2007年6月16日 Mop and Tianya share the internet community users。 In the past, Mop has been called Mop Station (猫扑大客栈) and Mop Planet (猫扑大星球).
History Mop.com was created by Zhe Tian, who went by the moniker "Mop". He stepped down from his administrative positions in 2002 following a series of large updates that were carried out on the website.
Originally created for the discussion of console games, the website expanded to cover PC games after receiving requests for it.
Mop has created several Chinese Internet slang, such as YY (yì yín (意淫), fantasizing), 233 (laughing out loud, Mop's 233rd emoji was a laughing emoji) and Orz (a bowing position), among others.
In 2005, Mop.com acquired IT news website DoNews. The merge of Mop and Donews in detail
Exposure of Internet Regulation Operation On January 5, 2009, Mop's section "Beautiful Ladies" was reported to the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre. List of websites needed to be improved and rectified On January 8, 2009, Mop.com was listed by the Chinese government on "websites for further improvement and rectification."List of websites needed to be censored
See also Tianya Club
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