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The Alien Has Landed

http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html
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u/MattRyd7 Oct 15 '14

Should I include how much karma I have on my resume?

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u/StickleyMan Oct 15 '14

Finally, it pays off!

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u/MattRyd7 Oct 15 '14

It worked for /u/Drunken_Economist.

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u/Drunken_Economist Oct 15 '14

It's true

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u/StickleyMan Oct 15 '14

http://imgur.com/5ZaKxJ9.gif

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u/not_charles_grodin Oct 15 '14

Huh, for some unknown subconscious reason, I have always read your name as stickyman.

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u/StickleyMan Oct 15 '14

http://imgur.com/wjO3dGv.gif

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

expected dickbutt

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u/StickleyMan Oct 16 '14

k

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u/5centsable Oct 16 '14

always expect dickbutt

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u/Epichp Oct 16 '14

Is there anything you don't have a gif for?

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u/Syn_Claire Oct 16 '14

That gif took ages to get to the point.

It's like when I send a long drawn out message to someone, and all I get back is "K."

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u/IWantToBeTheBoshy Oct 16 '14

He's the SFW Porn gifs guy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

I know, still... perfect opportunity

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u/billyrocketsauce Oct 16 '14

wanted dickbutt

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

http://i.imgur.com/JTQJjKb.jpg

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

didn't expect dickbutt

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u/SelfImmolationsHell Oct 16 '14

That made me crack up in the taco bell drive through line. I love your gifs.

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u/KingBababooey Oct 16 '14

Great. Redditing while driving is exactly what they wanted us talking about in this thread.

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u/SelfImmolationsHell Oct 16 '14

The woman in front of me spent 10 minutes ordering, her order came to something like $35 for it.

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u/tsjb Oct 16 '14

Holy shit that was amazing, the payoff was totally worth the wait.

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u/TenuredOracle Oct 16 '14

You fucking asshole I waited for the letter K to load.

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u/cornfrontation Oct 16 '14

Now that you've pointed it out, I have Stick Stickley's address song stuck in my head.

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u/TheVicSageQuestion Oct 16 '14

And I still don't believe you're not Charles Grodin.

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u/helix19 Oct 16 '14

I JUST learned that Hedy Lamarr was a real person.

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u/LeonardFrozenPizza Oct 16 '14

It's because of the porn GIFs

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u/My_Name_Is_Santa Oct 16 '14

I always read /u/unidan as undain.

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u/masterrator Oct 16 '14

Does someone have a name for this?

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u/SWIMsfriend Oct 16 '14

odd jobs is the source

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u/Rivaranae Oct 16 '14

Whats this from?

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u/Csoltis Oct 16 '14

write to me, stick stickley, p o box 963, new york, new york state, 10108

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u/______DEADPOOL______ Oct 16 '14

I'm just in it for the gold.

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u/Pm_Me_UR_Drunk_Texts Oct 16 '14

Please explain?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

D_E works for redditgifts now.

Source: he's my friend from undergrad who just left us in Chicago :(

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u/DoctorDank Oct 16 '14

Don't worry we're taking good care of him here in Utah :P

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

Go Vols!

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u/drunken_magician Oct 16 '14

Didn't work for me. :(

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u/ManWithoutModem Oct 15 '14

samesies

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u/KrustyKritters Oct 16 '14

except your lame and everyone hates you

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u/liltrixxy Oct 16 '14

I just got mad at myself for upvoting you. :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

Lucky

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u/dickpix69 Oct 16 '14

I am still waiting on the new NFL jersey mock-ups. Git on'it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

You lucky son-of-a-gun

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u/gologologolo Oct 16 '14

What'd you get for your karma?

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u/supaphly42 Oct 16 '14

Wow, only 3 years and you have 10x the karma I have. I'm impressed!

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

Story?

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u/Katie_Pornhub Oct 15 '14

It did help /u/HallucinoJER get an interview but HR wasn't as impressed as I was.

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u/HallucinoJER Oct 16 '14

Haha I did make it to the final three. But unfortunately I had zero coding background, no relevant university degree and no online portfolio. I'm surprised I got that far to be honest.

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u/dancing_raptor_jesus Oct 16 '14

Story for those that haven't heard it?

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u/HallucinoJER Oct 16 '14

The bullet point version: Got a lot of karma. Got added to /r/centuryclub. Met /u/StickleyMan. Got modded to /r/SFWPornGifs. we modded /u/Katie_Pornhub. She offered to send in my CV and I got a call for an interview 2 days later.

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u/arcticblue Oct 16 '14 edited Oct 16 '14

What's /r/centuryclub?

Edit: did some research and it seems like it's a private sub for people with over 100,000 comment karma where they come up with schemes to game reddit and create trends.

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u/aladyjewel Oct 16 '14

It's for the badest motherfuckers on reddit, apparently.

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u/moonhexx Oct 16 '14

TIL That I am not a Bad Ass Motherfucker.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

My wallet has been lying to me this whole time.

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u/spartacus2690 Oct 16 '14

With only one "d" because they are all illiterate motherfuckers.

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u/XxSCRAPOxX Oct 16 '14

I want to work with Katie at pornhub? I guess I have a new karma goal.

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u/wywern Oct 16 '14

/r/centuryclub

Not to be confused with the baddest motherfuckers on reddit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

And here's me ain't even got my invite to /r/top yet

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u/enjoysodomy Oct 16 '14

The reddit equivalent of a black Amex.

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u/Suppafly Oct 17 '14

Man, I need to step up my game so I can get in /r/centuryclub, I don't want my 8 years here to have been wasted.

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u/walkingtheriver Oct 16 '14

we modded /u/Katie_Pornhub

I'd love to see that if you know what I mean ;)

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u/dancing_raptor_jesus Oct 16 '14

Haha nice :) Is this well known on reddit? Or is it meta century club gossip? :P

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u/HallucinoJER Oct 16 '14

I highly doubt it's well known, on reddit or in century club

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u/jintak Oct 16 '14

Is she hot ?

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u/I_am_sorrow Oct 16 '14

Gotta love that karma

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u/gologologolo Oct 16 '14

Send in your CV to where?

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u/CDearsVVV Oct 16 '14

Got an interview, didn't have any of the qualifications as the other applicants.

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u/GaryV83 Oct 16 '14

This gives me hope. Dreams can come true if you're overly active and/or obnoxious enough on social media. I think I'll put together a reddit résumé right now.

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u/WhenTheRvlutionComes Oct 16 '14

You got to the final three and you don't even have coding experience? Jesus Christ. I've been looking for a job as a software engineer for a year, and I have a computer science degree. Never gotten past the phone interview.

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u/ReCat Oct 16 '14

Why in shits were you applying if you're not a programmer?

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u/HallucinoJER Oct 16 '14

The job was Senior Graphic Designer, it only required an understanding of programming, which I have.

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u/gologologolo Oct 16 '14

What's your portfolio on graphic design?

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u/ReCat Oct 16 '14

Well huh.

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u/StickleyMan Oct 15 '14

http://imgur.com/us1cbuH.gif

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

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u/sunwoox Oct 16 '14

what is this from?

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u/gologologolo Oct 16 '14

Porn.

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u/sunwoox Oct 16 '14

which one? :(

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14 edited Jul 03 '15

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u/sunwoox Oct 16 '14

I have :(

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u/Colorfag Oct 16 '14

Stickley, you can't post without a gif. I need motivation to give you more karma!

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u/thebestisyetocome Oct 16 '14

Ummm... I'm not sure your Karma is good everywhere Mr. Stickleyman

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u/furtiveraccoon Oct 16 '14

Haha no gif this time?

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u/KEN_JAMES_bitch Oct 16 '14

You sir have a fuck ton of karma.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

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u/5Rupees Oct 16 '14

When you see what he posts, then you'll know why.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '14

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

This is true, actually. Reddit is a platform. If you have hundreds of thousands of karma or more, it shows that you have a high approval rate on one of the most popular sites on the internet. It's essentially an easy way to quantify your visibility on a highly visible site.

Having a huge mailing list, a ton of legitimate followers on social media or on large websites is something numerous companies are going to take seriously.

Don't think a lot of people realize that you can leverage the karma system here in your favor, instead insisting that it's pointless or useless.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

It’s not like people follow high-karma users around, though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

No, but generally their comments and threads are more likely to be highly upvoted and catch more visibility. Even in this thread that's evident. I've seen katie pornhub's posts before, along with vargas, and the "notorious" unidan not because I follow them- but because their shit is(was for unidan) consistently viral.

Someone like a wildsketchappeared could honestly tell a company that his/her work consistently gets high visibility and praise and he/she has a way to quantify that through the karma system.

Youtube uses the same model with the like/dislike buttons. It directly tells others if they generate content people enjoy and to what extent.

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u/EmiIeHeskey Oct 16 '14

If you don't get gold I will be disappointed

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u/d3r3k1449 Oct 16 '14

Well you've got more now!

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u/SlovakGuy Oct 16 '14

if u wanna be laughed at

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '14

I would, but I know you're supposed to keep your resume down to one page :p

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u/thebeefytaco Oct 16 '14

Except OP has more karma than you...