How Did Reddit Become Popular

Fake profiles generating fake content. Obviously putting it that way makes Reddit sound terrible, but starting from scratch allowed them to set the tone of the website and also keep quality fairly high.

SEO'ing good content brought users in. With little moderation and focus on ease of posting, it took off.

Quora’s no different.

Nothing’s really starts organically… The internet isn’t there yet. It’s important to build a proper tight system that you can artificially inject it if you need to.