The OP in Reddit is the author of this article. He came up with the idea, asked for it and added some context around it. I don't think that is spam.

Also alarming is how the writer has taken the opinion of about a handful of Canadians (I did a search on the reddit page that this writer posed the question and located about 9 self-proclaimed Canadians) and generalized it into an entire Nation's ( of 35 million + people) feedback / experience.

From the WP Post by the writer

>>> Canada: "Most Canadians are unaware of the crucial role Canada played in the development of the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki." (A uranium refinery in Ontario supplied the Manhattan Project.)

Well, this guy from the WP posted the AskReddit thread and then made an article about it... by copying and pasting quotes from reddit users verbatim.

I wish they had at least edited the responses.

Crowdsourcing your work sure is one way to get it done.

The person to automatically build stories reddit posts is going to make a lot of money one day. Kind of like the robostories for recaps of sporting events.