Project Boom (Subreddit)

The Project Boom subreddit, r/ProjectBoom, is a private subreddit that functions as both a forum for media and discussion, as well as a social experiment.

Early History
The subreddit itself was created on April 27th of 2017, by the user named u/SendDrawingOfSquid. The subreddit lay stagnant for months, only accessible by a select few. However, users began to be added, and the subreddit thus grew.

Initial Growth
The first major wave of users invited to r/ProjectBoom originated from a post made by u/SendDrawingOfSquid, where he claimed that anyone who commented would be given the role of moderator with full permissions in his private subreddit. Many of the users who did comment on that original post are core members of the subreddit as it stands today.

Contemporarily, users are added to r/ProjectBoom through completely random means. Moderators of the subreddit are encouraged to invite any user they deem worthy of joining to the subreddit. However, growth has been a troublesome issue since the subreddit's inception: originally, the main method of inviting subscribers was to use AutoSquid's ability to mass-add any number of people within a reddit comment section. Initial mass-invites were targeted at popular subreddits like r/me_irl. However, mass-inviting random users is in fact against Reddit's Terms Of Service, as it is treated as unsolicited spam, and hence this method could not continue to be used to increase the subreddit's size.

Note: Mass-additions as described above are often referred to as "Booms".

Subsequent Growth
After the mass-additions had to be stopped, a slow but steady growth ensued due to the fact that anyone added could also invite any other user of their liking. No Booms have occurred recently, but, as they have shown to have been the most efficient way to add users, a continual dialogue has been established, wherein a compromise must be reached between random invites and mass-spam.