Is anyone monitoring all the fake accounts voting here? 👎

@laura_mesa It doesn't matter if you remove the fake votes because these products have already gamed the system to get #1 spot, and then other organic users automatically get eyes on them and upvote.

@laura_mesa What you call 'sneak through' are multiple spam accounts that opened a few days ago, and their only activity is to comment on the same product. They didn't even warm up before. So obviously fake, and all your monitoring do nothing. I personally reported on more than 20 spam accounts, and nothing happened. And this is another problem. You expect honest makers to do this work and report all those fake accounts to you instead of putting effort into their launch. As long as you don't apply sanctions against fraudulent creators, they have nothing to lose. In the worst-case scenario for them, you caught this and deleted their spam accounts; they still got what they wanted and are still at the top of the page all day at the expense of other honest creators.

@amitb I appreciate your frustration - we have built both automated and human power systems to work on this issue each and every day. And you're right - we do expect honest makers to help us flag and deal with these issues because Product Hunt IS a community. No one system or policy is a silver bullet to solve all of these issues. For us as a community to make impactful change, we have to work on this problem together, each and every day. We are actively looking into the profiles you sent below and will take action according to our terms and conditions. If you'd like to have a dialogue about this over zoom, I'd be happy to set it up.

@amitb @laura_mesa I'd be willing to have a zoom chat today on this topic. There is a lot of bad practices going on with today's launches that you SHOULD be made aware of.

@amitb crazy how you literally gave them a list of obvious bot accounts, but they still remain. I think PH has had it's run; time for a new platform.

@cornecoetzee - thank you for reporting. Could you forward the email you received to hello@producthunt.com?

@cornecoetzee Yeah I'm starting to get them too, via the contact form on my site.

@amitb I have gone through your list personally and removed anyone who committed more than one spam comment. This did not apply to all the names you reported, but they've all been flagged in the system.

@laura_mesa What do you mean by removing? They all still exist. And what about all the hundreds, if not thousands, of fake votes today? I created this list in five minutes only from a random product to make a point... The problem is much broader. But the more I get into it, the more I realize it's something everyone knows about, including you, and no one does anything... It turns out that only I was naive enough to think that you care and would actually do something.