On a related note: we just started handing out recommendations to give people in the community the ability to invite others to join the discussion. This way we can enable the community to help grow itself without opening the floodgate entirely. The site and team simply aren't prepared for it.
The site and team simply aren't prepared for it.
I am NOT part of any club. I live in upstate NH. I'm certainly not cool.
However I do think that you are noticing a trend that I have as well.. the actually innovative or disruptive products end up not getting as much attention as they maybe should.
What I am interested to see is the social graph that get's developed based on our product preferences.
I think it will be less about product leaderboards and more about product discovery.
my .02
Your comment, ironically, if anything, just made PH more desirable to the majority of the people that read it.
It's a cool kids club for cool SV startups as selected by founders and employes of equally cool SV startups, where it's specifically "cool" rather than "notable" or "innovative". Secondly, while you can't join their ranks at will, you will be given a membership to comment on your own product should some cool kid submit it to the PH. Essentially they exchange memberships for adding content to PH and helping build PH's credibility. It's a reasonable approach, but they are just being ... too blunt and obnoxious about it.