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I had a bad experience: 1. It was invitation-only when I tried to join it. No real complain here, it just didn't make sense for this kind of page and I don't l
by franciscop 10y ago
I had a bad experience:
1. It was invitation-only when I tried to join it. No real complain here, it just didn't make sense for this kind of page and I don't like it.
2. Then a couple of projects of mine got to the front-page of HN and someone -- I am guessing an admin -- added them to Product Hunt with an email I never gave them which resulted in waves of SPAM.
I cannot stress the 2nd point enough. Imagine that you make a project, a random person re-publishes it in some network you were denied entering and now for every person who comments in there you get a low-quality email.
Edit: for clarity I hope
- j_s 10y agoI don't understand I cannot stress [...] enough: someone [...] added them to Product Hunt with an email I never gave them which resulted in waves of SPAM You do not use filters? Free feedback, straight to your inbox!
- franciscop 10y agoAs far as I remember the feedback was a lot like cool project!, which is also nice but nothing compared with the previous front-page of HN as it was the same positive sentiment but with a lot of useful comments. About filters I use Gmail, so mostly use the stock ones which are good for bot SPAM, but not for user-generated comments.
- j_s 10y agoDifferentiating user-generated comments can be a pain; I would hope ProductHunt sends notification emails from the same source! Thanks for filling in the additional detail.