I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900

Re:I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900 by alex_young on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:51AM (#21343652)

This post talks a lot about the chicken and egg problem, and the inventors of Reddit faced the same problem - no one will come to your homepage for the internet if it doesn't look like the homepage for the internet.

Do you know what they did? They didn't focus on one community - they faked it. Thousands of fake posts with fake comments. All scripted.

Then one day they started seeing posts they didn't write and it took off.

Reddit was built on lies and you can too :)

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Re:I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900 by Ardren on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:38AM (#21344028)

I never heard there was thousands of fake posts, just when they posted articles they used fake accounts. Also there were no fake comments as Reddit launched without the ability to leave comments.

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Re:I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900 by whack on Thursday October 24, 2019 @09:05AM (#21344264)

I remember when I built my own social network as well (www.thecaucus.net). The core feature was fancy algorithms similar to pagerank, that calculated a score for each post. This is in contrast to Reddit where the score is directly proportional to the number of people who liked it. I posted a link to it on HN, and got angrily chewed out by someone for misleading people about the number of people using my site. I wonder what they would make out of Reddit literally flooding their site with fake accounts.

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Re:I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900 by tkifnn on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:05AM (#21343747)

Are there any archives to see what their fake content looked like?

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Re:I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900 by mocha_nate on Thursday October 24, 2019 @09:14AM (#21344344)

In Alexis ohanian’s book he says you can still find them if you go back far enough on the site.

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Re:I wasted 10 weeks of my life and $1900 by HelloFellowDevs on Thursday October 24, 2019 @09:55AM (#21344687)

The subreddit r/MuseumOfReddit is basically an archive of most reddit posts. This is the very first reddit post apparently.[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/1hrzax/the_...

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