I have had multiple launches this year on product hunt. I have earned my first dollars with product hunt.

Now, the money has disturbed the product hunt algos. Instead of founders making their own communities, they are accepting invites to different free lancers offering them paid votes to list as product of the day.

There is no advantage in this. Its a false flag. I launched chatdox 2.0 today and when I was reaching out to community, I got 5 messages for paid votes. I still don't know how that works.

May sanity prevails in this.

What is your take on this?