出版与作家生涯2012jacquesmattheij.com
抄袭：情节越来越复杂
Plagiarism, the plot thickens
导读
这篇围绕一起抄袭争议的后续展开，评论补充了当事人关系、编辑改动和公开回应等线索。值得写作者读，因为它示范了如何在争议写作中区分可核实事实、人物关系与动机推测。
可以直接用的写作要点
- 01
写争议事件先做事实时间线：谁在何时做了什么、哪些可核实、哪些只是关系线索，别把“前同事”直接写成“共谋”。
- 02
引用回应时分开写“悄悄改稿”“公开指责”“沉默”，这些不同反应本身就是叙事材料。
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如果冲突能带来流量，更要把证据和推测分开，并提醒读者哪些动机判断尚无实证。
HN 评论精选
当事人称自己介意的不是指控本身，而是帖子被悄悄修改和对方公开情绪化反应。
我只和 Harrison 短暂共事过（而且只是在同一间办公室——从未一对一共事）。我先在 Twitter 上联系了 Harrison 和 Zee。他会做这种事让我恼火，尤其因为他认识我。他偷偷改了帖子，Zee 又大发雷霆；那时我觉得自己受了委屈。Harrison 很久之后才跟我说话。没有编造，没有造假，也没有针对个人。总的来说，我气的是 Zee 的反应。
endtwist查看英文原文
I only worked with Harrison very briefly (and merely in the same office—I never worked one-on-one with him personally). I reached out to Harrison and Zee on Twitter, first. I was irritated that he would do something like that, especially because he knows me. He ninja-edited the post and Zee went on a tirade; that was when I felt wronged. Harrison said nothing to me until much later. Nothing manufactured, nothing faked, and nothing personal. By and large, I was upset with Zee's reaction.
争议本身能带来流量和 SEO 链接，读者要警惕“被制造出来的冲突”。
我常想，HN 上我们读到的争议有多少是某些聪明人完全制造出来的。注意：我不是说 Joshua-Gross-Next-Web 这件事明显是制造的，我完全不知道。我是说，争议是带来浏览量和链接的好办法。有些情况下这些链接对 SEO 有价值。我喜欢想象 Michael Arrington、Dan Lyons 和 MG Siegler 坐在一起说“好吧，我们能想出什么好借口来互相大骂？”……然后就有了这样的帖子（嘿，他们现在又得到一个链接）。我可能大错特错。也许 Arrington 一直写的是真实观点。但网上肯定有这种事。有人在追踪吗？有没有网站列出所有看似制造的争议？那会很有趣。
jbenz查看英文原文
I often wonder how much of the controversy we read about here on HN is completely manufactured by some clever individuals. NOTE: I am not saying the Joshua-Gross-Next-Web-situation is obviously manufactured. I have no idea. I am saying controversy is a great way to drive page views and links. In some cases, those links are valuable to SEO. I like to imagine Michael Arrington, Dan Lyons, and MG Siegler sitting around a room and saying "Ok, what can we come up with as a good excuse to really yell at each other?" ... which is then followed by posts like these (and hey, they're getting another link now): http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-whores-and-paid-apologists-welcome-to-the-silicon-cesspool/ I may be way off. Maybe Arrington is always writing his honest opinion. But it surely happens somewhere on the web. Is anyone keeping track? Is there a website that has a list of all the seemingly-manufactured controversies? That would be interesting.
评论者抓住“受访者与作者是前同事”这一关系线索，但也承认公开资料无法完全核实。
“首先，Joshua Gross 曾接受 The Next Web 采访，文章作者是同一个人；更令人惊讶的是，他们过去实际上在同一家公司工作过！”抓到了！谁能想到 Hacker News 会成为调查性新闻的领先来源。不过我没法从 LinkedIn 核实他们曾同公司？然而采访可以在这里找到（据提交的博客文章）。
sparknlaunch12查看英文原文
"First off, Joshua Gross was interviewed by The Next Web for an article by the same author, and more suprising, they actually worked at the same company in the past!" Busted! Who would of thought Hacker News would have been the leading source of investigative journalism. I cannot verify that they worked at the same company from LinkedIn though? However interview can be found here (as per submitted blog post): http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/01/17/stop-cluttering-your-inbox-by-pasting-your-images-text-and-files-into-this-web-app/
争议对媒体声誉的影响有限，读者应区分作者、当事人和媒体机构的责任。
虽然接下来会很有趣，但这件事最终不会让我对 TNW 印象更好。它只会影响我如何看待 Gross 先生。即便如此，对我影响也不大；TNW 作者在文中是个次要角色，TNW CEO 才是主角。
mileszs查看英文原文
Though it'll be interesting to see where this goes, it ultimately doesn't make me think better of TNW. It can only affect how I view Mr. Gross. Even then, it won't affect me much; the TNW author was a lesser character in the post, where the TNW CEO was the star.
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