On: How Product Hunt really works

[argonaut]

Even if there is no upvote requesting, this does bias YC founders to upvote other founders' posts, when they organically check the front page.

[dang → argonaut]

Maybe, but I'm pretty sure the effect is small. For example, there aren't any posts by YC founders on the front page right now. And votes by YC founders mostly wouldn't be enough to move a story in ways that would escape the ring detector.