How the hell does he get so many upvotes? He has hundreds of comments with nothing but run on sentences and they all have dozens of upvotes each.

Because the intersection of utter surreality and being really really nice to people is ... to me, both awesome and hilarious.

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 went skimmed through the whole history of the user (dozens of comments, but the account is just a day old right now). It's obvious looking at the number of points each comment got that it depended on there being a large audience in the reddit thread stoked_for_you was commenting on. 1000+ points on very popular threads, 1 point on unpopular ones.

I do want to say that it's one of the best reddit user comment histories I've ever gone through.

I'm glad you like it :) For me it serves as a constant reminder that a little generosity and friendliness can't hurt. It made me re-evaluate much of my own behavior in a way no criticism of said behavior ever could have done. I spend so much time on being right or being better, and that is a complete waste of energy. Changing habits is hard, but this random guy sitting somewhere in the world helped me a great deal already, and will continue to inspire me, I'm sure. The stuff I read so far made and makes me grin all throughout the day, even away from the computer... it's just not true that anonymity only makes people behave at their worst, it also frees some of them up to be more loving and/or funny than they might dare to be in person. Taking some of that spirit and applying it to my thoughts, and to my actions and words towards other people is now a goal of mine.

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

Unrelenting, freewheeling positivity, what's not to love?

"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." :)