Let them have what exactly? The whole entire site smelled like a get rich quick scheme from the start for the founder. I tried submitting something only to later come to the same realizations of the vote rigging aforementioned.

Congrats on playing the VC system, I guess.

What? Ryan started a newsletter out of a love of discovering new products. I'm sure he was very surprised how popular it became.

This is a bizarre sentiment (to me). Success should never act as some sort of temporary shield to criticism.

that kind of attitude is responsible for a lot of awful behavior in the startup community—why should a business venture be exempt from criticism for unethical/misleading practices just because they managed to parlay those practices into eventual financial success? what does that say about startup culture and the rewards, the "deserved congrats," we give out?