[TheRookie]

Backstory:

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NYMag writer Maureen O'Connor was among 16 women chosen to participate in "Cross Country Love: Help Fly NYC Women to SF."

The five-day trip, which was crowdfunded via Crowdtilt, was thrown by Lauren Kay, the founder of dating startup The Dating Ring. The idea behind it is that Silicon Valley has become so dominated by wealthy men that it has caused a supply-demand imbalance. For some reason, this can only be solved by flying women from New York to San Francisco.

The brilliant troll:

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One programmer who donated several hundred dollars to the campaign compared the situation to giving money to a homeless person—implying that it was a demeaning act of pity.

He then criticized the online dating scene, saying that he prefers to "use reality" as his platform and began to touch O'Connor.