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>>kaeruc+(OP)
TIL: you can buy (fake) GitHub stars.

That was a bit shocking to me to learn.

>>yla92+Aa
/s ??

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.

>>quickt+fc
Can you explain why is it "natural" to try to get your repo to have many stars in a world where starts can be bought?

>>soroko+1g
Natural: promote the repo, people see it and like it. I don’t beg for them.

Unnatural: pay some bot runner to buy stars.

I prefer natural as the stars are a metric not an end goal.

>>quickt+vg
Right, was not asking what you mean by natural but rather why is it of any value.