Alek's Christmas Lights: Humbug

g00set writes "Alek's Christmas lights story was previously covered on Slashdot here, however the Denver Channel is now reporting that it was all a hoax: 'The Lafayette man said he accomplished the trickery by taking 12 "base" photographs of the house with lights on and off and then constructed a Web page that appeared to show lights going on and off when the Web visitor clicked.'"

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Re:Alek Comments

[Anonymous Coward]

Asshole.

Go ahead and mod me OT

[Barlo_Mung_42]

But I have to say it.
Why is it that our media is able to get to the bottom of something like this and expose it as a hoax but can't do the same with bogus WMD claims maid by our government?

Get him!

[nxtr]

I know where he lives!

Re:Hope Google sues you

[The-Bus]

Blockquoth the poster...

Bullshit.

I may get modded down for calling you the loser that you are, but I hope instead enough people are pissed off enough at you that they mod me up to +5 instead. Or someone with a slashdot account reposts this, so someone at Google sees it.

You created a fraud. Congratulations. Only losers such as yourself know what runs through your mind during all the time you took to create your fraud. It would make an interesting psychology class.

Not a big deal if it was confined to the slashdot crowd. But your site was picked up by mainstream press, and kids and adults from all over the world were entertained in believing your site to be real. Hopefully most non-slashdotters will continue to believe that, since they are unlikely to return unless they bookmarked the site and remember to return. Or maybe you'll continue your fraud and they won't know the difference.

It may also serve as a good lesson on fraud for the older kids. But the younger kids? You gave them a lollipop, and it turned out to have a castor oil center. Hope you got a good laugh out of it, because you and a small minority of slashdotters are probably the only ones. I'd guess that most others, including most slashdot regulars feel let down or disappointed. And from the handfull of posts I read, also feel that you are a fraud.

You pulled off a hoax, and got a helicopter ride and some Google cash out of it. Most fraudsters/losers are able to pull something like this off once in a while. But eventually, you'll end up in a grab-your-ankles situation. And when that happens, all I can say is, 8-]

So in closing, I hope Google sues you to recover any money they paid you for your fraudulent site. Even if they lose, it will cost you for the lawyer or settlement, and Google won't miss the couple of grand they spend in legal fees at all. They protected their brand against fraud in your case, and it will have been money well spent.

Congratulations. You are now known across the internet as a fraud. I'll bet the rest of your life revolves around fraud as well. Gated community? Get used to those bars.

I'd have to agree. Maybe not as strongly as you, but I agree. I am an easily influenced person and after reading reactions/facts going opposite what I think I will often add that to my opinion. However, after reading a whole bunch of posts, his reaction, and the articles, I still don't know why he did it.

The tech behind it seems cool but that doesn't make me want to cheer him on. I don't feel cheated, I just feel kind of sad. It didn't help that he continually shilled his site on here. So he fooled a bunch of people. How is that any kind of achievement?