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I tried this with a blog I used to run. Back when RSS subsriber count actually mattered, I faked the subscribe button to show that I had 15,984 subscribers inst

I tried this with a blog I used to run. Back when RSS subsriber count actually mattered, I faked the subscribe button to show that I had 15,984 subscribers instead of 134. I would get just 1 subscriber every day earlier. After the change, I started getting 3 a day with the same traffic.

ohashi 11y ago
When I was working on developing a site, before it had its own domain setup, I used FB like code for another domain just so it would work. It was a popular domain with tens of thousands of likes. I didn't change it right away while I got the site up, one of the early testers was super impressed how many likes my site had though. Despite being connected to a completely different domain. It was social proof that was never actually checked. I updated to my own domain and nobody has ever cared since, sadly.