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Re:Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get ini... by andrewljohnson on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:54PM (#15654908)
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?
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Re:Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get ini... by legohead on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:56PM (#15654937)
Yes, they've admitted as much. [1]

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/z4444w/how-reddit...

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Re:Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get ini... by jedberg on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @01:21PM (#15655257)
There was no commenting at the time, but yes, there were sock puppets for voting and submitting links.
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