<story><title>Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (2012)</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dom96</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been considering using Reddit data to pre-seed the content in a successor to Reddit. Though I am unsure how that would stand legally.&lt;p&gt;As a side note, I created an alternative Reddit API[1] and Reddit didn&amp;#x27;t like that so much they banned my 13 year old Reddit account.&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;api.reddiw.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;api.reddiw.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelandfe</author><text>IANAL. For the US, users grant Reddit a license to use their content when they post it. The users still own that content. Reddit&amp;#x27;s license does not extend to your reuse of it[0], nor have the underlying users directly granted you permission, so it would not be legal (in the US) for you to reuse like that.&lt;p&gt;[0] &amp;quot;you may not... license, sell, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or Content&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.redditinc.com&amp;#x2F;policies&amp;#x2F;user-agreement-september-12-2021&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.redditinc.com&amp;#x2F;policies&amp;#x2F;user-agreement-september-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Reddit founders made hundreds of fake profiles so site looked popular (2012)</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddit-founders-made-hundreds-of-fake-profiles-so-site-looked-popular/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dom96</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been considering using Reddit data to pre-seed the content in a successor to Reddit. Though I am unsure how that would stand legally.&lt;p&gt;As a side note, I created an alternative Reddit API[1] and Reddit didn&amp;#x27;t like that so much they banned my 13 year old Reddit account.&lt;p&gt;1 - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;api.reddiw.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;api.reddiw.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>doix</author><text>I was chatting about this with some friends. If we had a million or so spare, just fork Reddit. Grab the latest open source version of Reddit, pay the pushshift guys for the most up-to-date dump they have and get it in.&lt;p&gt;Make a system for claiming your old Reddit account. I&amp;#x27;m guessing if you try to use OAuth, Reddit will just ban you. So you need to get creative, probably make an extension that grabs the users sessionid from their cookies or something (or let people copypaste it in if they are technical enough).&lt;p&gt;Fun to imagine but unfortunately probably won&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></comment>