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Comment by marginalia_nu | Hacker News Reader

Hmm... Not sure you want to be flaunting star growth charts like these in the light of yesterday's post about buying github stars.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pot-app/.github/master/pot...

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Hmmm, Indeed, this kind of growth charts doesn't look very good, but there's nothing I can do about it. A while ago, a major software sharing website recommended my software, which caused a rapid increase in stars during that period. However, after that period of time passed, the growth rate slowed down. But it doesn't matter because this charts is only used to record the trend of stars and it doesn't indicate anything significant. I have no intention of using it to flaunting.

I guess what I'm saying is that these charts makes your project look more suspicious because that growth is weird-looking. You may or may not be legitimately acquiring these github stars, I can't tell, but whether or not you are, you may want to remove the chart from the page because it raises a lot of questions.

Okay, thank you for your suggestion. I will delete it and fill the readme with some useful content.

What is the purpose of showing the charts?

I just thought that the charts in this project look good. I also used similar charts on my GitHub profile. Now I realize the problem with doing so. In the future, I will write some useful information in the readme instead of using such a chart.

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