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No thanks. I would much rather people downvote me when they disagree. If all I get is upvotes then what purpose would it serve to be here? That would imply we all think alike which would be silly and dangerous.
No thanks. I would much rather people downvote me when they disagree. If all I get is upvotes then what purpose would it serve to be here? That would imply we all think alike which would be silly and dangerous.
1. HN Upvotes 2. Product Hunt Upvotes 3. Github Stars
Why? Because it's all part of their marketing con. For some software companies, they rely on the hivemind to drive the purchase of their vaporware.
So the comments can't be trusted much anymore...
As for /new - it's pretty hard to get by that gate if you're making a blatant attempt of trying to get on the front page. And I think a lot of HN users would easily recall a time they flagged something on /new because it's clearly spam even if it doesn't look like it at first glance.
Now, the irony here would be if this is actually a gamed submission itself and the provider is showing that they can get your story on the front page regardless.
It would be fun to use chatgpt to make some throwaway SaaS mvp and then get these guys to promote it to see what the experience is like (and then write it up for HN).
No thanks. I would much rather people downvote me when they disagree. If all I get is upvotes then what purpose would it serve to be here? That would imply we all think alike which would be silly and dangerous.
Being asked to defend your work in public and why it's worth being upvoted or talked about is something that folks building should have to go through.
It's interesting that the intellectual capacity here at HN acts as a "horseshit detector" pretty much subconsciously. This service does seem to offer a lot of upvotes (50 & 100), which one could argue can be bought to boost a story that has 100 organic upvotes already. But maybe dang has a built-in upvote spike monitor for this. As for /new - it's pretty hard to get by that gate if you're making a blatant attempt of…