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Fake it til you make it: http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/ http://arstechnica.com/

• ou 14y ago
  It good for bootstrapping content, but how would that fetch users. If user come to your website, then he may stick around because finds lots of other fake user. However, that wouldn't bring user who don't know that your website even exists.
  • joshschreuder 14y ago
    SEO and marketing then. There's plenty of resources around which discuss how to get users to your site, how you keep them there is through good content and a reason to come back.
    • ou 14y ago
      Can you please point me to some of links or HN article please.
      • joshschreuder 14y ago
        Try these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1176294 http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
• diminium 14y ago
  How about for those of us that have ethical and moral priorities? What do we do?