[vaksel]

you don't get karma for self posts on reddit

[jquery]

Like that matters. Getting front page is satisfaction enough. People are way to credulous about Reddit stories, as if the usernames make them more credible than 4chan.

[mcantor]

Now listen here, "jquery", if that is your real--oh, whoa, wait, jquery? The javascript framework!? Dude! Oh I'm sorry, man. My bad, I was just... I didn't... I'm really sorry!

[Alterlife]

That's probably the Bait. The poster gained a lot of comment karma from his responses.

It seems very unlikely that this story is true.