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Bots, so many bots
ProductHunt’s engagement is now mostly bots
I assigned each user a risk score based on many different criteria, like account activity duration, upvote patterns over time, and content of comments. These bots form voting rings where makers pay for upvotes to increase their chances of getting into the ProductHunt newsletter. Launches paying for upvotes probably aren’t high quality products, so they often rank top 5 instead of first place:
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