That's interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I found an article about it:The founders of Reddit admitted they used fake posters to make the site look busy.
According to Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman, in the early days the Reddit crew just faked it ‘til they made it.
Not unrelated to fake user posts is the very widespread use of FAQs. I wouldn’t mind betting that the huge majority are not literally frequently asked questions, but rather imaginary questions used in a way to succinctly provide the most useful information in a convenient and useable format.I'd rather fail it than fake it.
Yeah, I would do this too. I don't agree with anything I said a few years ago.I keep it real on my forum.
Okay. I don't think that alts are that bad.fake acc
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Xenforo doesn't possess the infrastructure for good structured (useful) content. Thread usefulness gets worse NOT BETTER over time, as the information density worsens as a thread goes on. Not to mention, Xenforo search is quite bad. Use the current search and search for XenPorta. You do not receive useful results.Yes, it is much more difficult these days but good content always works. It just takes more time to get traction.
Xenforo doesn't possess the infrastructure for good structured (useful) content. Thread usefulness gets worse NOT BETTER over time, as the information density worsens as a thread goes on. Not to mention, Xenforo search is quite bad. Use the current search and search for XenPorta. You do not receive useful results.
The main content type for Xenforo is unthreaded threads. This is most useful for back and forth chit chat, not structured data. The fact that images and media are actually divorced from threads is another outdated concept. Do you think reddit would do well with a "Media Gallery" ?
I think you must mean MySQL and elasticsearch is bad.Not to mention, Xenforo search is quite bad.
Or, "the search experience xenforo offers is bad". Or "self-hosted, small platforms struggle to provide google-class search capabilities" (which may change). Words are fun.I think you must mean MySQL and elasticsearch is bad.
Don't flood a new forum with an excessive number of forums? Encourage friends or users to post to create activity?I don't need fake posts; I just need posts for an empty forum. Is there a better way than posting four times, selecting them, copying them, selecting eight, copying them, selecting sixteen, copying them, and so on?
Yes! Start with 5 posts!
Don't flood a new forum with an excessive number of forums? Encourage friends or users to post to create activity?
Wow. I can honestly say I've never used fake accounts on my forum. It didn't even occur to me to create fake accounts to appear to have more members. I don't have that kind of time! LOL! I'm busy enough just being me on the forum.As others have said, the biggest and most successful sites all used multiple accounts to help them "make it". I noticed that the people who are against it have forums with 5 or 10 members. They're not in business, they're just a hobbyist of some kind.
Those of us who have to make money know that a few puppet accounts saying real things and providing real content isn't going to hurt anything. It's going to help.
I've completely ditched forums that had no activity before, why should I waste my time there? You post something and nobody ever responds, I'm not sure why they're still paying the rent on the place.
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