Literally addresses NONE of the issues presented in the piece he&#x27;s responding to. No one questioned the upvote system and how much each vote counted, though I&#x27;d say that&#x27;s still dubious. When insiders exist to get your product on the home page and no one who doesn&#x27;t use that method gets on the home page, and you have coordinated launches using SPECIFIC TIMES that it will be on the front page, you don&#x27;t get to come out in a medium post with a cute cat and go &quot;But, we didn&#x27;t do that!&quot;<p>As I&#x27;ve said previously on here I&#x27;m a capitalist and I respect greed, but I don&#x27;t tolerate liars. If you going to build and insiders promotion site, then do it, and own it. Don&#x27;t backpedal when someone calls you out.