Awesome project! Any chance you'd be interesting in publishing the code for the bot so we could make variations of happybots to spread the <3 and not-so-subtly protest the suspension of said happybots?
(also linked from the article text.)
I'm fine with other people making lots of happybots. I just hope no one would adapt the code to, say, harass or bully people who are already feeling shitty.
I would suspect but have no idea how to test that the upvotes are coming from fans of it as performance art who're following the user, rather than particularly from people already interacting in the original thread.
I do want to say that it's one of the best reddit user comment histories I've ever gone through.
And all that because I wanted to see if the NSA stuff is on reddit too, and getting stuck in some random funny pictures thread, where I saw a comment by that guy! Sorry for rambling, but I'm genuinely stoked for stoked_for_you :D
"negativity is just positivity with more electrons" -- stoked_for_you
I don't read reddit usually, but I could see myself reading a bit of that comment history every day.. that account reminds me of the "saying" "I strive to be the person my dog thinks I am." :)