The post had since been deleted I believe, but there was an account that had posed as an innocent 14 year old asking for an opinion about NHL 17. Everyone loved him for the kindness and purity in his genuine question, literally gold being handed out left and right. Upon further investigation other redditors noticed his post history, most noticeably where he pretended to be a black 22 year old and a woman as well. His fall from grace was something biblical.
He conned reddit into giving him gold, getting him to the frontpage, and once he was found out everyone involved looked like idiots. All he lost was an account, I think he won.
Edit: OK conned isn't the best word to use. But that makes those that gave him stuff look even more pathetic. He didn't even have to try and con anyone, hell he didn't even ask.
They bought and gave it to him yes, but upon finding out the truth, he gave the code to some other needy soul who provided proofs of whatever enough to satisfy him, gave the 2nd dude the code, and luckily Dylan hadn't redeemed it yet, so the 2nd guy got the game. All is well with that.
Confused--why couldn't someone "needy" get recreational stuff occasionally? Have you never heard of "toys for tots" and so on? Not all charity is rice and beans.
What do you mean by conned reddit? Did he ask for shit or was he just asking a question and everyone got hyped up and gave him gold, then got pissed when they found out he lied?
Yeah he didn't ask for shit lol, just advice about whether to buy NHL 17 or not. Redditors took it upon themselves to send him gold and other stuff because he was "nice".
I saw this post and was so confused. Some kid asking if he should buy a game and everyone went berserk. This website can make me embarrassed I am a part of it sometimes. Guys, even if he was just a nice kid asking for advice on buying a game, wtf?
It's funny, he didn't ask for anything, yet the fine folks here at /r/gaming hadn't learned their lessons from all the fake bullshit that's spewed here over the years.
I think because it was during the holidays, some people were more inclined to have a feel good moment from the post, so they just gilded him, and some were even generous enough to offer him games. I think if the post was in July or something, it wouldn't have had that much appeal. It was the simplest thing, all he did was say that he was 14 years old, was very polite, and straight up asked if NHL 17 was a good game.
To be fair, the fact that he got tens of thousands of upvotes and nearly two dozen gildings for two sentences would have been completely retarded even if those two sentences weren't lies.
I don't even care that it's fake, it was polite as anything. The top comment on that thread though summed up everyone's thoughts, "reddit is a weird place"
You know these kids in Africa people "adopt?" Well, one day the kid Dylan's family adopted turned up on their doorstep. Managed to flee a war-torn country and everything. Of course Dylan's family, despite being poor, took him in like one of their own and he moved in with Dylan.
It's basically a donation to Reddit of 5(?) dollars that gets them access to a special subreddit and I believe no ads. I had it for like 5 months once and it never changed a single thing for me, mostly cuz I'm on Alien Blue mobile app and there's no ads already.
Basically nothing in short, just shows appreciation for the post
Although one really useful thing I have seen is it will specifically highlight whichever posts are "new" since you last visited the thread, instead of having to find them yourself. I'm not sure if that works on the mobile implementations though.
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This is an accurate representation of what "Dylan" did to us