Hi, I may want to plan on creating a picture community for a certain niche one day. If I was to do this, should I create lets say 20,000 fake members be4 spending money on advertising? Is this a normal technique marketers use when promoting a new launched website? I remember a webmaster of a community site said most players in the game do so..and this was in a interview on my local channel 5 news. I'm assuming its okay and nothing wrong with creating "fake members".
Fake Members generally make new members believe that the forums are "dead" due to the fact of the low post rates of them and many members having 0 posts.
I just posted about this in another thread. See my 2nd post in this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=278594 jim