Creating forum pretend characters for stimulus?

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#1  Edited By Astras

For this website that I am building (not gaming related)I was wandering how to stimulate the forums.. I was thinking is it possible to create forum posts generated by a computer program. Since I have built the forum from scratch using SQL and PHP my admin, and use PHP and SQL to display it dynamically on my forum pages, I was thinking:
 
I could create a program in PHP that randomly triggers responses to threads, there was posts in this forum that gave me the idea, such as: 
 

  • cool story bro, i'm off to play more pokemon 
  • *Random Pic
  • Thats really intersting but have you considered *random comment*
 
Was thinkin it might help retain traffic in the sites early stages of the sites lifecycle by faking and simulating other users in the fourms and help the possibility of the site becoming popular.. what u reckon?
Or should I just keep taking the medication?
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#2  Edited By luce

I think You're a mad scientist
 
Without the scientist part

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#3  Edited By AltonBrown

What did I just read?

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#4  Edited By Jrad

Consider: 

  1. Getting a shitload of raw text forum posts.
  2. Filter out the usernames/dates.
  3. Put it into the Travesty Generator.
  4. Take the output, put it into a travesty.txt file.
  5.  Create program that extracts random paragraphs from travesty.txt, posts to random threads.
  6.  Let sit for 3 days, checking occasionally.
  7.  Enjoy >1000 new posts!
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#5  Edited By Astras
@Jrad:  lol interesting, I know how to rip text directly from a HTML page, (Into a .txt) then to use in a Java/C++ program, not sure how I would go about Pasting into windows and extracting etc... Ive seen things like this before (bullshit generators) although that travesty seems to be broken
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#6  Edited By Video_Game_King

Stimulus? Are you suggesting that Obama should stimulate the economy by creating fake usernames on the Internet? Or do you somehow have some freaky sex with fake personae you create for yourself? So....confusing...
 

 
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#7  Edited By Ben99

you wouldn't need that if your website is appealing to a wide audience