Calling it a "vote-ring" is a bit of a logical leap, that would imply that its individuals purposefully upvoting one another's products. Yet with such a low am

Calling it a "vote-ring" is a bit of a logical leap, that would imply that its individuals purposefully upvoting one another's products. Yet with such a low amount of posts meeting this tests standards, and the fact that Product Hunt was specifically designed to focus on influencers it doesn't seem unlikely that a small group of users would vote in similar patterns on either quality products, or ones shared by influencers they follow. And, when you take into account that they share via email posts from influencers you follow it just adds to this behavior. The last few times I've been on Product Hunt was because I got an email that Hiten Shah and shared something. I follow him because we have similar interests. I opened the PH link, agreed it was a great find and upvoted it. It doesn't make me a vote-ring.