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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SA itself comes from somewhere, so I hear.

This is true. Before he started SA, "Lowtax" was reviewing Quake maps on planetquake. Without Quake, there'd be no /prog/riders. Without John Carmack, there'd be no Quake. And John Carmack works for facebook. Coincidence?