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by jelan
972 days ago
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Yes, people cheat all the time. Usually this happens in the form of either paying for upvotes from bots or soliciting votes from friends / colleagues that wouldn’t have given an upvote if it weren’t for some personal connection. Product Hunt tries their best to detect when bots are upvoting, and responds by removing those upvotes (you can see this happen on many hunts by looking at the upvote rate graph, if it takes a sharp almost impulse like decline that usually means PH is removing upvotes based on some kind of fraud protection they have) I’m not sure why people still feel the need to cheat to get to number one on PH, it really doesn’t mean anything close to what it once did. Speaking from personal experience, a startup company I used to work for put great time and effort into their debut on PH, ended up in the top spot for the day, and got exactly 0 press, 0 new registrations that didn’t instantly churn, and 0 feedback on the product that was actually worthwhile. The only thing we did get on a daily basis was, you guessed it, emails from people also launching on PH asking for upvotes! |
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I always thought the point of PH isn’t prestige but eyeballs. Cheating to get to the top isn’t for bragging rights (still nice to have though), it’s to get more users.