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> So this whole argument presupposes there were any “rules” that were broken. You're conflating legal laws with social and moral rules. Nobody's claiming they

• tomhoward 3y ago
  There is no social/moral rule against simulating usage on a brand new website that has no organic usage. People in this thread are writing whole screeds arguing the importance of condemning this supposed moral breach, but it’s a case of the beg the question fallacy: people are seeking to prove there was a moral breach by assuming there was a moral breach. I say again: nobody who was an early organic visitor to Reddit has ever complained of being deceived or harmed, and indeed they self-evidently benefited by finding content they liked and a site they wanted to post to. Also: from the very start of this subthread my main point has been against grumpiness, and people keep grumpily replying, apparently trying to defend the importance of grumpiness. I mean, sure!