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Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts
derekmead writes "How, exactly, did Reddit get so big? Well, according to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman, in the early days the Reddit crew just faked it 'til they made it.' In a video for Udacity, Huffman describes how the first Redditors populated the site's content with tons of fake accounts. These days, with the site's users are wary of people using expendable accounts to try to seed their own content. But early on, Huffman said that using fake accounts driven by the founders was key to building the tone they wanted to the site. Early on the Reddit crew could shape the discourse of the site in the direction they wanted, and as the real user base grew, those standards held allowing the fake accounts to fade away."
You don't say
ever see a single dollar bill in a tip jar? Priming isn't new.
Well, I have.. I took all the other bills out when the cashier had his back turned. :D Everything I learned, I learned from Batman movies.
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
A Nasdaq cofounder admitted today that their site was built by a horde of fake accountants.
There are real people behind those posts now?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Setting the desired tone? Gates bad. Torvalds good. Portman hot. Jobs cool.
I preferred Web 3.11 for Workgroups instead.
With this new web 3.3 society
You must have some kind of pre-release. I'm still on web 2.0.4-RC2. I think the 3.x series has more we- scale techonlogies like nosql and cloud. That will allow us to leverage javascript on every teir to make a thicker thin client with rich apps using HTML6 technology with XML for unstructured social tags. This is perfect for enterprise.
I'm looking forward to the upgrade.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
No, I'm complex. Or maybe quaternion.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
And if you mention the ongoing project of genocide directed at white people, you can expect a million downvotes from white anti-white cultural marxists.
EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief
“You’re (white people) on the endangered list. And unlike, say, the bald eagle or some exotic species of muskrat, you are not worth saving. In forty years or so, maybe fewer, there won’t be any more white people around.” – Tim Wise, “anti-racist activist”
“The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the White race.” – Noel Ignatiev, Harvard Professor
“Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?” – A member of the Weather Underground
UNACCEPTABLE: “Affirmative action and racial quotas are special treatment for minorities.”
ACCEPTABLE: “Affirmative action and racial quotas are necessary to overcome the legacy of slavery which is still keeping any non-Asian minority from succeeding in Post-Racial America. Besides, white people are all rich, connected, and racially privileged, so the very notion of treating them unfairly is racist and stupid, and you are racist and stupid for saying it.”
UNACCEPTABLE: “There’s black people out there, rioting, looting, and setting fire to grocery stores!”
ACCEPTABLE: “Although partially blinded by my white privilege, I think I see some oppressed minorities fighting back against institutional racism, seeking social justice through involuntary reparations, and opening a combustion-based dialogue with the Korean community.”
UNACCEPTABLE: “Black men just keep raping white women at a ridiculously high rate.”
ACCEPTABLE: “Today’s race-conscious African-American male seeks to overcome historical barriers to inter-racial unions, as well as discriminatory female consent practices.”
So, reddit is admitting they are as fake as digg.com? LOL, dropped both sites a few years back.
> Been to r/circlejerk, lately? :)
You mean there is a difference from reddit? ;-) /me ducks