How Reddit Seeded Its Early Content With Fake Accounts

Udacity · Lecture · 4 min · 2012 · YouTube title: Growing Reddit - Web Development

Why it's here

HN cites it as a first-hand admission from a founder of how Reddit seeded content with fake users, in threads on bootstrapping user-generated sites.

What it covers

A short clip from Udacity's Web Development course in which Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman describes how Reddit grew early on. He explains seeding the site with content from fake accounts.