[frostirosti]

Reddit is at least very transparent about this. You can't plow a field and just expect wheat to grow, you have to plant the seeds.

[saghm]

But apparently you can plant fake seeds and start plowing, and then people will come and plant real seeds there, and then you can harvest that wheat

[nindalf]

The purpose of the initial seeding was to create the appearance of users, and also to encourage the type of content the founders wanted to see themselves. I'd be delighted to hear how you would have accomplished this.

[manigandham]

...so? You can also create multiple accounts today and post whatever you want. What exactly is wrong with their process when the users themselves decided there was enough value to stay?

[saghm]

I don't think I said whether or not I thought that their process is wrong, I just extended GP's analogy