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I agree with the premise, but how do you see Reddit as an example?

• eirn 5y ago
  From what I've heard, Reddit early on scrapped content from other sites. Mostly to actually make it seem like it had more users that it actually did. They stopped once they got to a critical mass of user generated content which was self sustaining. That's not exactly something that would fly nowadays. Although, as Im researching this I can't find a source for this. So please correct me if I'm wrong.
• MattGaiser 5y ago
  They scraped other sites for content and created fake users to create the first wave of activity.