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mk  ·  4537 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular
I'm going to blow your mind: I am kleinbl00.

Just kidding.

I do have a more than account, but I don't use the others except for the very occasional goofing around. Maybe once a month or so. I have two Reddit accounts.

I don't fault Alexis and Steve for doing what they did. I am well aware of how difficult it is to build an active community from scratch (and they even had Paul Graham telling all of his friends to check Reddit out). At least they are open about it now, although I doubt they would have been if you asked them in those early days.

On a side note, I view an account more as a tool than as a registration. Of course most of us choose to nurture one persona, but I think pseudo-anonymity is extremely useful. For example, if there is a Hubski conversation about child abuse, someone might find it worthwhile to make another account to share a personal story. The same goes for politically sensitive topics.

Btw, I do kind of miss kb. I didn't always agree with him, but I always read what he had to say.