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by neurotech1 1076 days ago
Back in the day before Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and Social Networks, there were groups that specialized in being "forum launch crews" that would help seed forums with a group of early, genuine users and posts, based on topics and categories to match the overall theme of the forum.

The last time I helped launch a forum, this was migrating a group mailing list to vBulletin. With some research, I did locate this Reddit post with some tips. [0]

Since this is 2023, One could also use ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4) [1] to generate the content, or the GPT-4 API if available.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/modguide/comments/e7ircv/how_to_see...

[1] https://chat.openai.com/?model=gpt-4-browsing