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Ironically, this is probably fake. Reddit doesn't send emails for comment replies, or for anything, pretty much. (There's newsletters, and password reset, but n

by ikeboy 11y ago

Ironically, this is probably fake. Reddit doesn't send emails for comment replies, or for anything, pretty much. (There's newsletters, and password reset, but nothing consistent with how it's described.) This sounds like what someone would write if they were making something up rather than a genuine story. Also, the NYT is pretty well moderated, you wouldn't get away with trolling there, I think.

gist 11y ago
Ironic can be called story trolling then. Not sure that it matters even if it is real though. It's close enough to what you believe might happen. I see many more things that are even much clearer in terms of potentially being made up (even posted here on HN frequently) [1] that it reminds me of back in the day contests to see who could get 'Dear Abby' to answer some letter (that was something that was done by college students many many years ago). [1] Always the same theme "here is something shitty that happened to me don't they suck what should I do".
tzs 11y ago
> Reddit doesn't send emails for comment replies, or for anything, pretty much. You can get them as RSS, though, and there are third party tools that will turn an RSS feed into email. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChangeMon/comments/32zmji/get_email_notifications_when_someone_replies_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ChangeMon/comments/32zmji/get_email...