Yes, they may count more on the most popular site but it doesn't have to matter. When enough people see it on Hacker news or Reddit it will be known anyway and

Yes, they may count more on the most popular site but it doesn't have to matter. When enough people see it on Hacker news or Reddit it will be known anyway and it might get start on the site it is on. You can just judge it from a different scale. And if the most popular should always win there would be no Linux, Windows is still much more popular.