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Would there be limitations on who can post? for example product hunt has a member community that is allowed to post, and an even more exclusive community that can "pin things" to the front page directly.

I imagine that this idea would get the company short term traction when first posted. How would they maintain traction without advertising as their posting slips in the rankings?

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1. I'd rather go democratic than "elitist": e.g. it would be nice if a post gets deleted because a majority wants it deleted and not because of moderators. That said, "even more exclusive community that can pin things" is actually nice because it increases the motivation of this "more exclusive community" to contribute.

2. I often ask myself that. Some thoughts;

- Not only can users see the popular stuff of the last few days but also of the last month, 6 months, 3 years, etc... Effectively "smoothing" this "slipping" you describe.

- With tagging, slipping is less a problem; even though a product has slipped in the general ranking it can still be on top in certain tags.

Thanks for the comment, what do you think of the overall idea?

> I'd rather go democratic than "elitist" [...]

It's nice in theory, but what is your plan to combat sockpuppets, meatpupets, shills, astroturfing, voting rings brigading, spammers, ...

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