What do you think of Product Hunt hiding upvotes in the first 2 hours?

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I think it gives a fair shot at everyone indeed, I'm just wondering based on which criteria products will be displayed on top of the page because I think they will still have an advantage in terms of upvotes.

What's your opinion?

Uma Venugopal · Accepted Answer

I'm for it. It gives everyone who's launching a good opportunity to be seen more and helps new users joining have unbiased opinions and not succumb to fomo by looking at the votes.

Chris Sarca · Answer

Sometimes I'm worried that PH users don't know what quality products are. 
I've seen countless questionable products around with tons of upvotes.

Now it's a question of how much PH users care about quality products vs what's hot at the moment.

Hiding the upvotes won't solve the problem I mentioned above.
Besides, there are many ways to fake your way up without bots.

Bart Drijver · Answer

@uma_venugopal Definitely!

Bart Drijver · Answer

@anton_bannov I hope it will decrease bot use indeed because it seems like this has become more problematic than ever

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Anton Bannov · Answer

I think this will help a lot in the fight against the purchase of bots and so on. Let's see how it affects the result

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Good initiative.

Maxime Dolores · Answer

Really liked it, I took a longer & more interested look at each product rather than skimming through the first 10 / 15 products

Maybe they should tune it a bit differently, I'm not sure it's necessary to see the number of upvotes when you open the product page for example but this is taking a good direction

What do you think of Product Hunt hiding upvotes in the first 2 hours?

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