All you have to do is look at Ryan Hoover&#x27;s &quot;recommended&quot; comments on his own post to get a sense of his position on things. This is a weak attempt at damage control that shows absolutely no desire on his part to address the central issue with Product Hunt: those people (in particular, those who aren&#x27;t PH employees) who can arbitrarily post startups to the front page with no differentiation from those who made it there via popularity.<p>Of course they won&#x27;t change it. The whole &quot;game&quot; is to provide a system that on the surface looks meritocratic, but actually isn&#x27;t, in order to give visitors the impression that the arbitrarily posted products &#x2F; sites are popular (because they must be to have made it to the front page), and thus drive traffic to them. It&#x27;s dodgy.