Are you honestly that surprised?
People have started to value things like GitHub forks and stars as though they mean something. Create a metric and it will get abused, this is how the world works.
People have started to value things like GitHub forks and stars as though they mean something. Create a metric and it will get abused, this is how the world works.
These metrics aren't usually a problem until people attempt to game the system like it's done on platforms like youtube, but I'm not aware of this happening on github (at least not often).