Comments on post “Product Hunter Upvote Grabber”
Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
To be honest I wouldnt recommend people using things like this
Tweeting everyone who upvotes you isnt very authentic and I just don't see the actual benefit other than building lists that people may not want to be on. An upvote is an upvote, but if you want to sign up for an email newsletter or something then you should be able to choose to do so. An upvote shouldnt mean you are then open to communication automatically
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Manuel Frigerio
@mnlfrgr · Maker of @maitre_app / CTO EventNinja.io
@bentossell
Hi Ben. As you know, we have already had similar problems with PH in the past so let me explain why we did this :)
True, some people might use it for "spamming" people, however we have used this tool in the past internally to find interesting prospects and simply thank up-voters after being on Product Hunt.
It was REALLY useful.
It's a tool and as such can be used for good things or bad things. It's up to the individual person.
You guys allow anyone to retrieve up-voters with your APIs (which I think is great). Therefore you are already giving this "power" in the hands of people. We wanted to make it easy for people to pull the list, which is ALL this tool does.
What individuals do it's up to them.
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@mnlfrgr unfortunately this reminds me of https://www.producthunt.com/post... where you could get the emails of everyone in a Slack group.
Yes those are essentially public too but lots of people complained. Not saying this is a tool built for the wrong reasons but unfortunately people do use it that way. Unless someone is signing up for future communication I feel that you should not be messaging them like this.
Public profiles and emails does not mean that the user is asking for messages and think it's a difficult position to be in.
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Kieran Goodacre
@kieran_goodacre1 · Growth @ Maître & Virapi
@bentossell @mnlfrgr LOL emails are a very different thing. Emails are by their nature private. I give it to someone I know.
This is a publicly available handle (which PH uses, and publicly shows). There is no comparison mate.
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@kieran_goodacre1 @mnlfrgr just because those handles are public doesn't mean that people who will ultimately use the tool to scrape them and send out hundreds of spammy tweets is ok.
I see it every day and try to encourage people not to use this kind of tactic. Doesn't come across well when an account tweets the same thing to multiple handles.
Obviously we are not going to agree on this. So lets leave it there.
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Kieran Goodacre
@kieran_goodacre1 · Growth @ Maître & Virapi
@bentossell Thanks dude, I understand the good work you do.
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