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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Reddit's success built on foundation of fake users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Thu Jun 21 19:31:55 2012
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:12:58 -0700
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Reddit's success built on foundation of fake users
http://j.mp/Map5mO (Vice.com)
"Well, according to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman, in the early days
the Reddit crew just faked it 'til they made it. In the above video
for Udacity, an online source for education and lectures, Huffman
describes how the first Redditors populated the site's content with
tons of fake accounts."
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Hmm. I wonder how people would react if a politician or most other
businesses, were caught doing this? The same kind of amused respect?
Probably not.
--Lauren--
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