Interesting that in the beginning most article submissions were by the founders themselves. I don't use reddit, but I wonder if the frequent bemoaning of "when Reddit still was cool" I read here really refers to that time in the beginning when submissions were primarily made by the founders?
Pity it's not true. Steve and I weren't anywhere near that good at finding interesting content. Here's the C&P'd response I left on his blog:
Thorough writeup, Tom.
I'm curious as to where you got all your data, though.
Steve and I were indeed the only two people using the site when we started it (aside from a few friends we begged) but we were submitting&voting under multiple usernames only for a couple weeks. Once we got a link from a PG essay, we started seeing some traffic -- people who did a much better job than we ever could at finding interesting content.
Your "80% for many months" figure is incorrect. If you could provide the source, I'd be happy to contact them to correct this inaccuracy.
Otherwise, you've got a pretty spot on piece. Thanks for writing it.
