Comment by SolariaHues on 09/12/2019 at 20:52 UTC

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Possibly could have included this:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/[1][2]

1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/

2: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/

Reddit apparently used ghost accounts to seem more active at first.

It's up to you whether you feel this is something you want to do, or not.

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