I look PH as a very good place to promote products, and it's born to promote products. No matter it's a good or bad product, they all don't want to miss a chance to reach their customers.
> True users vote for USEFUL and/or LOVELY products for themselves, growth hackers try their best to drive users vote for specific products.
I can't see that's good or evil, growth hacking may hurt the community, or may bring a lot of users and traffic in a short period.
And I think every community has possibility to become a place for growth hackers if it needs to attract more users and grow bigger.
Just like every corner has possibility to become a place for advertisements. If I don't like it, I just ignore it. And that also makes opportunity for competitors or products like ad-block to stand out.
Anyway I love PH and really feel sad for the acquisition.
> True users vote for USEFUL and/or LOVELY products for themselves, growth hackers try their best to drive users vote for specific products.
I can't see that's good or evil, growth hacking may hurt the community, or may bring a lot of users and traffic in a short period.
And I think every community has possibility to become a place for growth hackers if it needs to attract more users and grow bigger.
Just like every corner has possibility to become a place for advertisements. If I don't like it, I just ignore it. And that also makes opportunity for competitors or products like ad-block to stand out.
Anyway I love PH and really feel sad for the acquisition.