Some of the (extensive) reddit comments on the story cast a reasonably amount of doubt on his claims. Unfortunately there's just too many of them for me to be able to quickly summarise the various bits and pieces.

On a side note, I only stopped by to see if reddit had reached digg parity - not there yet, but I'm increasingly glad that I left.

(I nearly used "e-migrated" instead of "left" - and that's just from 5-10 minutes of exposure)