Now all kinds of operation routines emerge in endlessly, has not been strange. However, YESTERDAY, I experienced a very strange thing, also deeply dig the truth behind this thing, found that some let me feel very “dirty” behavior, or from the hands of a we-media magnate.

The cause of

The day before yesterday, I started to update the Spring Boot Basics tutorial THAT I started writing in February 2016. Yesterday, I pushed the first update: “Spring! Boot 2.x basic tutorial: Quick Start” through the public account. After the release of the tweet, most of the readers are supportive, of course, it is not surprising that there are still some fans to make fun of, such as: such content is everywhere and so on.

Among them, one fan comment is quite special, because he directly pointed out: I plagiarized a big V’s article. Well, the abuse of plagiarism and manuscript editing is not uncommon. As I said in the article “The Spring Boot tutorial with the most stars on the net will be updated”, due to the domestic technology platform and search engine, the first author has not been well protected. My first reaction was naturally that the other party copied or washed my article, so I opened the comparison, there are quite a lot of similar sentence patterns, plagiarism does not count, but the main part of the middle may be suspected of plagiarism:

Here are some horizontal comparisons, with Big V on the left and mine on the right:

Are some statements very similar? At first glance, I thought I wrote it. But I’m used to it, so I simply replied as usual: “Thanks for pointing it out, but look at the release time and decide who copied who.”

I thought that was the end of the matter, because most of the plagiarized or edited articles (the comparison was posted in blogosphere on 2016-7-12) must have been later than my original post (2016-02-26), so the smart reader would have noticed that there would be no more trouble.

However, the student’s evidence again, but LET me speechless. He gave me another screenshot to prove that BIG V’s blog post preceded mine, as follows:

A big V’s independent blog post date: 2016-01-06

And my independent blog post date: 2016-02-26

Suddenly, I had nothing to argue with. As if I was the real plagiarizer, was it me that was the problem? Such a result, as I say, is certainly unacceptable. There are a few basic ideas that I have followed throughout my blog:

  • Write what no one else has written
  • Some personal reflections
  • Record solutions to problems that you encounter but cannot find

If this way of blogging, but also be accused of plagiarism, then I really can not tolerate it. So I began a road to prove my innocence.

clues

When I saw the date problem, I was really very helpless. Therefore, I made fun of this matter with other we-media and operation friends. Under the group, there are some ideas to figure out the small behind this matter.

Since the date of an independent blog is completely controllable, it is preliminarily judged that the big V has falsified the release date of the article. So how do you prove that? People have already thrown the date of the blog post on their face, how also have some evidence to throw back!

Exhibit 1: Github submits records

When we write a tutorial, we usually do a case study, so we usually have a Git repository. Does the first Commit time match?

The first Commit of the warehouse is: 2016-11-5, 10 months worse than the article release?

Exhibit 2: The Spring Boot version

Since I wrote this article with the latest RELEASE number of Spring Boot at that time: 1.3.2, if I wrote earlier than ME, at least the version number cannot be higher than what I wrote. I searched the Internet and found that the earliest version of Big V was released in 1.3.6 on open Source China

If the article is earlier than me, was 1.3.6 developed by BIG V itself?

Exhibit three: the date of other articles suspected fraud

About this picture provided by the other party, I wonder if you have found the Spring Boot learning material summary such a blog, why earlier than others? For SEO?

Exhibit 4: Not the first time

In the search for this and that, I also found some previous intersection, for example, I saw a big V posted an article on Zhihu before, and there was a paragraph of my own content in the middle, so I reminded me:

Maybe there’s a lot more like it, not necessarily about me, but people don’t notice it.

The ending

The final outcome is very simple, I found above these east east sent in the past, the other party did not respond, home in the evening to find the other party has taken off… You can see that he is a very loyal fan, not willing to accept the reality, can only silently erase me from his sight…

For today’s such a thing, if it is just a simple copy, wash draft, for me, it is not strange, soon also passed. However, blog date fraud such things, that really a bit “dirty”! Not to mention whether it makes other original writers disgusted, I wonder if the counterfeiters feel sorry for their fans? In fact, the brother who came to preside over “justice” has no problem, but he got false information, misleading his judgment of the fact, so strange thing happened.

Now there are more and more technical “we media”, and people often discuss some operational experience. I don’t deny that operation is really important, but a word of advice: please don’t be so “dirty”!

Routine so deep, how many people still insist?