Ok guys explain this:
I've signed up for early access and was placed 6817, my friend sitting next to me signed up right after and was 6827, my gf signed up 30 secs later and is 6837. See a pattern? If they have to lie about their number of sign ups I wonder how trustworthy the rest of the service will be.
I know it's just a detail but why would you do something like this? Fake it until you make it?
Well, the former Reddit founder is on the team. And I seem to recall reading something about how that did that with early Reddit posts too (marking the voting counts much higher to make it seem like they have more users than they did).
They just didn't quite do it good enough. Would have made it more believable if they did a random 5 to 10 addition on each signup. Probably had to rush out the landing page to capitalize on the opportune MtGox disaster.
Hi tinbad, thanks for signing up for early access. We appreciate that your friend and girlfriend also joined. Let us know if you have ideas for how we might verify our numbers as being authentic while also protecting user privacy / security, we'll be happy to oblige.
