Ahaha, I too have discovered Srini with this story and enjoyed reading him ever since :) I can't say I've been that clapper, because I haven't, but I've been that reader that Srini describes in his hilarious style as follows:

"I look at my stats and notifications literally every 5 minutes when I’m awake, every 1 hour when I’m asleep. You think you’ve clapped and run without me noticing. But you see, I see you. I see you running faster than Usain Bolt.

Last Saturday night, I fell asleep for 2 hours straight mistakenly. I woke up in a panic and noticed — 100 claps and 1 comment. Something didn’t feel right. I was right — 1 read.

It wasn’t hard to find you when literally 2 people viewed my stories and clapped during those 2 hours.

I saw who read and who didn’t. The reader commented genuinely and clapped. You do the math."