[inventorgeorge]

I have set up a new forum. Going public with an empty forum does not seem to me to be much of an encouragement for people to join in, so I would like to “prime the pump” – add some topics and replies to get it started.
is there an easy way to add topics/replies with various author names without creating new accounts and logging in for each one?

OK, this probably considered cheating, but would you join in a forum if it were completely empty?

[Robkk]

its better if you have some kind of community already like from users commenting on your site a lot , or facebook/twitter users.

but i have seen people pay for other people to make the site look active.

i have also saw a video about the creators of the reddit.com site use to make a bunch of dummy accounts that they would switch to , to make their site seem active.

if you are going to switch to a bunch of accounts

this might help

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-switching/