How would this be unethical in reddit's case? It's not like they tried to raise ...

ekianjo · on Oct 26, 2023

Deceiving early days users. Since when lying is OK?

mdorazio · on Oct 26, 2023

What did they lie about? People on Reddit and right here on HN use multiple accounts all the time (look at all the throwaway accounts).

ekianjo · on Oct 27, 2023

throwaway is very explicit, there's no lie involved since everyone knows what it means.

> What did they lie about?

Fake users being piloted by the same person behind the screen. If that's not a lie, then I don't know what is.

sbarre · on Oct 27, 2023

geez, if that's your biggest complaint about discussion forums, you live a pretty blessed life.

We're talking about Internet discussion forums here.. The amount of fakery, lying, bullshit and outright awfulness that happens on forums every single day across the whole Internet is staggering.

If they used aliases to kickstart discussions and try to get people involved and contributing, I'm not sure that's something to get your pitchfork out about.