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by steveb0x 3296 days ago
What would be the motivation behind fabricating a story like this?

I see posts of this nature all the time on r/csquestions. This one just happened to go viral.
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runin2k1 3296 days ago
Attention seeking behavior. Maybe a clever teacher asking students to create fake news to see how easy people are to fool. Boredom.

See -- Programmer Automates His Job Away for 6 years and then forgets how to program.

I don't think any individual aspect of the story is unbelievable, but when taken as a whole it stretches credulity.

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m0nty 3296 days ago
> What would be the motivation behind fabricating a story like this?

Lulz, getting one over on the Internet, being able to fabricate a plausible story and see people all over the world reacting to it. Some people get off on weird stuff.

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