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Did the founders create sock puppet accounts early on, so new users would get more comments and votes, and feel like the community was bigger and more active?
by andrewljohnson 9y ago
Did the founders create sock puppet accounts early on, so new users would get more comments and votes, and feel like the community was bigger and more active?
- legohead 9y agoYes, they've admitted as much. [1] [1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z4444w/how-reddit...
- jedberg 9y agoThere was no commenting at the time, but yes, there were sock puppets for voting and submitting links.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]