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1. coolsa+Tc[view] [source] 2023-03-18 10:24:29
>>kaeruc+(OP)
Is it just me or the fact that Dagster has one of their competitors Mage.ai listed here as a repo with around 15% of fake stars seems like an odd coincidence?
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2. TheDon+Lo[view] [source] 2023-03-18 12:32:01
>>coolsa+Tc
I mean, they explain it at the top:

> we track our own GitHub star count along with that of other projects. So when we spotted some new open-source projects suddenly racking up hundreds of stars a week, we were impressed. In some cases, it looked a bit too good to be true, and the patterns seemed off

If their competitor has fake-looking star counts, I'd expect them to be the ones best equipped and most likely to suspect it.

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