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The Greatest Story Reddit Ever Told

by nagrom on 11/2/14, 10:55 PM with 29 comments

  • by jgautsch on 11/3/14, 3:27 AM

    That was a great read for me because up until about halfway through I had just assumed based on the title that it would be about some kind of long running scandal facilitated on reddit.

    It was a really great surprise that it just kept getting more and more positive. I wish more exposé style pieces covered positive stories like this instead of just stories on scandal, crime and corruption.

  • by swartkrans on 11/3/14, 4:27 AM

    This story is about this iama "IAmA fella getting sentenced to Federal Prison in less than 48 Hrs. I am facing 10 years. AMA.":

    http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/chc3k/iama_fella_getti...

    Resolution:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/Youngluck/comments/cipv9/sentencing_...

  • by blhack on 11/3/14, 5:26 AM

    I sidestory to this is the one about kleinbl00, who was an awesome redditor who had a bunch of people on the site seemingly turn against him.

    He was basically driven off of the website, and almost never posts anymore.

    It's kindof a bummer, actually. That guy posted really good comments.

  • by whitten on 11/3/14, 12:43 AM

    A heart-warming piece about Youngluck, an artist who went to prison, and is now working on RedditGifts as a designer.

    This reminds me that stories are the best way to help us develop our empathy.

  • by kickme444 on 11/3/14, 6:55 AM

    So happy to see this on Hacker News. Dante is so important to us and it's great to see him get some recognition.

  • by emmanueloga_ on 11/4/14, 6:02 AM

    I'm sure there are people who like this kind of writing, but personally, If something is supposed to be news, I really rather get the facts.

    The objective of this "journalistic narrative" genre seems to be to hide the information for as long as possible, only to reveal what happened at the very last moment.</rant>

  • by iblaine on 11/4/14, 5:58 PM

  • by lazyant on 11/3/14, 6:27 PM

    I was expecting the "today you, tomorrow me" post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003515 (not that this one is not good too)

  • by journeeman on 11/3/14, 8:33 AM

    What an inspirational story! Thanks for sharing.

  • by abandonliberty on 11/3/14, 5:09 PM

    What happened to his friend?

  • by RivieraKid on 11/3/14, 5:03 PM

    TL;DR?

  • by pearjuice on 11/3/14, 12:00 PM

    I hate to be that guy but can anyone give me a tl;dr? Where most of you might be running the lean startup and allow for 5000+ words to be read on a Monday, some of us have work to do.