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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.
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There are real people behind those posts now?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
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)
> Setting the desired tone? Gates bad. Torvalds good. Portman hot. Jobs cold.
FTFY
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> Been to r/circlejerk, lately? :)
You mean there is a difference from reddit? ;-) /me ducks