Doubtful Inner Ghosts vs United Front? Matters #minoritymovement

Too long to read? See the abstract:

Instead of suspecting inner ghosts, it is better to unite the front

Instead of blindly following the hot spots, it is better to create multiple creations

Link your diverse original articles to this article and you will receive unconditional basic appreciation

A few days ago, I happened to see that @Joyce ( Matters ID: @hepeng) posted a professional knowledge study note, and I was very pleased: It turns out that on the Matters homepage, you can also see pan-political issues/pan-Matters issues. of diverse creations.

I am excited to leave a message for discussion, expecting the author to reply, but there is no news.

When I manually clicked to the author's homepage to check it, I found that things were different, and only the digital tombstones of "muted users" were left in vain. This kind of shock is different from that when sensitive articles in the wall were 404. What a similar feeling.

It turned out that an enthusiastic user ( @catding @ Mr. 不開間) reported @Joyce for allegedly violating the community charter. After the intervention of the website @Matty, Joyce's account was frozen. User Joyce's main crimes are:

1. Reprinted (or suspected of plagiarizing) multiple articles with different topics and different sources, and did not indicate the source.

1. A large number of following users (up to 1.95k) with suspicious behavior.

Regarding the first item, that is, suspected plagiarism, my attitude is of course against plagiarism. Borrowing the fruits of other people's labor in exchange for your own traffic is disgusting.

However, there is something to be doubted: Matters is a small platform, and there is not much traffic here. If a person really wants to make money from traffic by reprinting and plagiarizing tricks, then he can choose big platforms such as Toutiao, WeChat public account, Weibo, Twitter, Youtube and so on. According to my analysis, Joyce's articles published in Matters are unlikely to be malicious plagiarism, but most likely just use this site as his personal excerpt, just like collecting something in WeChat notes.

In fact, in addition to the user Joyce, there are also a large number of reprinted articles on Matters (not published by the original author himself. Even if some reprinters indicate the source, at least they have not obtained the authorization of the original author), and the site management of this It's actually rather loose. Many of them have been reposted by many people, and even been pinned to the top 🔝 as the headline of Matters Today. It can be said that in terms of copyright/intellectual property management, Matters is actually strict legislation, generally illegal, and selective enforcement, and there is a lot to be reviewed.

It can be seen that suspected plagiarism is not a sufficient condition for the website to block@Joyce. The reason why the user ended up being banned is actually more direct and the main reason is because of his " suspicious behavior "——

• This account has tracked 1960+ accounts in one go

• Among those being tracked are users who have never spoken or rarely spoken

• The number of its tracked users has risen continuously within 24 hours, and it is suspected of robot behavior

• Several articles published by this account, the writing and style are very different

• Accordingly, this account is suspected to be a "robot arm" used by the Internet police to collect information

At this point, a fictional conspiracy theory story appeared on the paper: a Chinese Internet police comrade discovered Matters, an "outlawed place on the Internet", and then he used his superb hacking skills to capture and track a large number of users, and By reprinting and distributing articles with different topics to attract attention and win the trust of users, the ultimate goal is to infiltrate social engineering. Fortunately, the people of Matters were very keen to find out this hateful undercover Internet policeman, and under the wise decision of the station@Matty, they were mercilessly banned.

It is ironic that although many people have such a baseless conspiracy theory in their hearts, the reason for the final ban on @Joyce is not "suspicious behavior", but the "article of strict legislation and choice of law enforcement". Reprinted from unknown source".

Oh, what a resemblance! Do you feel deja vu: When arresting some sensitive people, sometimes the police do not use the reason for "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", but because of "prostitution" and other charges...

As far as the matter is concerned, will Joyce really be an undercover Internet policeman? I dare not say 100% not, but the truth of the matter, after the closure of Joyce's voice channel, I am afraid no one will know. There are also some users ( @wuguoyi @myhcl) who defend Joyce, believing that it may just be an IT enthusiast who wrote a python crawler to crawl Matters data, and Joyce himself also recognized this in his response. statement.

I don't want to defend Joyce because the truth is unknown. I just want to emphasize three points: first, procedural justice, second, presumption of innocence, and third, no double standards .

From this point of view, I would like to say a few words about Matters' diverse creation.

Most of the recent popular articles on Matters are pan-political topics, and half of them are discussions about Matters or LikeCoin itself. The trend of philistinism is obvious (at least there are many irrigation behaviors), and few high-quality and diverse creations in other fields have surfaced. If the content of a community is limited to itself (imagine Douban users discussing Douban itself every day, not books, movies, or music), then its creativity is likely to be exhausted, and its own Devoured, only a group of like-minded but prejudiced people are left with blind self-exaltation - although Matters has not yet reached this kind of field, but a certain wall board next door has learned from the past.

Several of Joyce's articles, written for himself or not, have greatly enriched the diversity of Matters, and even filled gaps in certain topics:

#cooking

#movie review

#document management

#genetic technology

#programming

...

Blindly following hotspots can certainly attract attention, but I want to see a colorful world of personalities. I am here to launch the #minority movement. All original articles that meet the following conditions and associated with this article will receive my unconditional 5 consecutive appreciations, so that your diverse creations have more chances to float on the homepage and be seen by more people. The conditions that your work needs to meet are:

1. non-pan-political topics
2. Non-Matters/Likecoin/Decentralized Topics
3. No obvious irrigation tendency
4. In principle, the length of the article should be more than 800 words, except for the theme of poetry

• It is recommended that you hashtag the article #minority (this is optional)

Similar attempts have been made by many people ( @ 有森@Unidentified Flying Rabbit@jiahe@wuguoyi, etc.), which caused a temporary response, and the effect was actually quite good. It needs to be stated that this #minority movement may be terminated someday in the future. If it is necessary to terminate the operation, I will notify in the variable notification section at the end of this article.

Finally, back to the question of suspected ghosts.

In the protest movement in Hong Kong last year (2019), there have been many suspicions of inner ghosts, and plainclothes police have been repeatedly suspected of being undercover. Looking a little further in history, the class struggle during the Cultural Revolution was clearly aimed at cleansing the inner ghosts of the purity of the revolution. It can be seen from this that the paranoia of human nature sometimes creates non-existent but mutually believed "inner ghosts" out of thin air, and suspiciously carries out internal cleansing of cocooning - this cannot be said to be a weakness of human nature.

What we need is not the inner ghost in the teapot to clear the storm, what we need is to unite all forces that can be united, whether that person is a brave whistleblower or a cowardly listener . The Chinese Communist Party calls it a " united front " and the Hong Kong protesters call it "no division, no division." In fact, they all say the same thing.