So how does it work? Creating a new online community.

If you were to create a website that is to be an online community (forum, textboard, imageboard, hybrid, anything etc) how do you get people to it if you were not to go out and ``advertise'' it and instead simply just created the website, made it searchable through search engines utilizing keywords and the URL of the site, and simply letting it sit? Will people discover it and then stay and start posting?

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True. 4chan came from SA, with a bit of 2ch thrown in, and SA itself comes from somewhere, so I hear. Even if >>1 spoke to ageing Lisp hackers in person and asked them to join xir board, you could say that the ones who stay were disgruntled or displaced from Facebook, usenet, reddit, the real world, wherever they used to hang out. After all, why would they stay posting on www.>>1-san'sanu.sx if they didn't find anything there that they didn't already have?