TIL: you can buy (fake) GitHub stars.
That was a bit shocking to me to learn.
That was a bit shocking to me to learn.
It's unfortunate as I've seen stars used as a metric of trustworthiness in general user discussions.
I always expected there was a market for fake stars. I am trying to get a repo naturally to 1000 stars, but I would never buy them.
Unnatural: pay some bot runner to buy stars.
I prefer natural as the stars are a metric not an end goal.
That just shifts the question to why is "reach" something worth wanting?
> some people with snap judge a project by number of stars and more likely use it if it has a bunch.
And why do you want these users?
2. they may just be busy users, looking for something for their job.
I take on board your point though. The stars thing isn't the biggest consideration by a long shot. Probably the smallest!
That's how record labels can simply decide what's going to be the next summer hit. They pick a song and promote the hell out of it. It's not the summer hit because it was somehow better, just more promoted.