I’m unsure as to why the Product Hunt outrage in particular. Every major distribution platform (the press, social networks, app stores, even Hacker News) favors insiders. Has PH been presented as a solution to this problem? (I never thought so, but perhaps I haven’t been paying such close attention.)
At least that stuff is open though. It would probably be better for Product Hunt if they separated openly voted for stuff from the others similar to how Google separates paid and organic search.