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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
That's my issue with stars already. One repo having more stars than another doesn't mean it's better in any way. It might just mean it's been promoted more.

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.