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That's for promoting your brand.

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That's against the open-source ecosystem spirit, where the number of stars is a measurement of project popularity.

The number of stars means absolutely nothing. I don't understand why people care so much about an insignificant counter in a proprietary platform.

Github stars do signify the overall quality and public reception of a project, at least to me. Github doesn't have "sharing"-type social networking functionality to artificially increase the number of stars, so I think it's in a pretty natural place right now and I hope it stays that way.

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