I know theres a way to act as a user and post but that takes a really longtime when your just trying to populate some content. On Xenforo theres a plugin which I think is a good idea but not sure if its possible for discourse? It allows the admin or mod with privileges to have a drop down of users a…

What I do is make use of the admin wrench to change the post author immediately after posting. It’s not perfect but it works. Definitely make the change within the 5 minute ninja edit window.

Id have to do that when everyone is sleeping lol

You can see this thread for a discussion. tl;dr [image] Seeding a new forum by creating users and content creating fake users is questionable practice and I’d strongly recommend against it, for the long term health of your community.

I disagree with that and for my userbase I find Huffmans post was correct. Frankly no one wants to belong somewhere where they think they are the only member or only talking to 1 person. With my first vbulletin I populated it, threw some adds on out and on reddit and got it growing with a small comm…

Simply create multiple accounts using email addresses and plus addressing. [image] 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can g... …

Which was also in the thread I pointed to… [image] Seeding a new forum by creating users and content you can create multiple users with a single email account by using email addresses like this: my.gmail.username@gmail.com my.gmail.username+user1@gmail.com my.gmail.username+joe@gmail.com my.…

Admin posting as user?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 28, 2017, 6:22pm 4

You can see this thread for a discussion.

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