This was a trick implementors used when starting a new MUD too. If someone logged in and saw nobody else on the who list they would disconnect and never come ba

This was a trick implementors used when starting a new MUD too. If someone logged in and saw nobody else on the who list they would disconnect and never come back. Ideally you had at least the developers and a few testers committed to actually playing and then you’d pad those numbers with fake accounts or bots.