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Re:“App Developer” bamboozles Redditors as a millionaire usi... by lev99 on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:39PM (#16377565)
Why are you bummed that people are mad about being lied to? It seems like a reasonable human reaction.
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Re:“App Developer” bamboozles Redditors as a millionaire usi... by jchw on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:00PM (#16377755)
Basically, because I do feel like it is a mostly-harmless lie that is quite funny. I get that it is eroding people's sense of trust, but I'm guessing his intent was not to mess with his own following but to mess with the general reddit community. The fact that this went viral seems to have pulled in some of his fans, but I doubt it was intentional.
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Re:“App Developer” bamboozles Redditors as a millionaire usi... by ctrl-j on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @01:18PM (#16377907)
> mostly-harmless lie that is quite funny.

People feel shitty when they are lied to and laughed at.

It's a shitty thing to do. If you enjoy it, that's fine. It's still a dick move.

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Re:“App Developer” bamboozles Redditors as a millionaire usi... by tantalor on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @12:43PM (#16377600)
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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