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>>kaeruc+(OP)
> Yet [GitHub stars] influence serious, high stakes decisions, including which projects get used by enterprises, which startups get funded, and which companies talented professionals join.

Really? I honestly just don't believe this... if I were to believe this, I think I'd have to conclude the world is just too broken to bother rescuing.

>>saurik+Bd
People use flawed but easily consumable metrics to make almost all decisions.

It takes a lot more effort to collect multiple metrics along different axes, understand the skew/bias of them and make an informed decision.

Visibility and ease of consumption are the most important aspects of a metric if you want people to use it.