[Grue3]

On the other hand I find PH comments pretty useless and that it's usually a waste time to read them. The first thing I want to know about the new product is its limitations and possible pitfalls of its usage, and the product's page itself is unlikely to provide that. The "encouraging" comments from "carefully vetted" PH community are just as vacuous as the landing page copy.

[solve]

Is that really appropriate for things that are just launched? Out of infinite possibilities, the number of things an app doesn't do are practically infinite. Is there really value in always whining about all the things a just launched app doesn't do yet?

Why am I talking about only new apps? Because that's what these kinds of sites are always going to mostly be about. Scoops on new things - news - is what drives votes on these kinds of news sites. Therefore, you're always going to get mostly new, incomplete things.

Encouraging people to point out the flaws, on a platform that only votes new flaw-filled brand new things to the top -- results in a very predictable outcome: incomplete stuff always voted to the top and people always whining about the incompleteness.