Self proclaimed GitHub star. But still only 5000 followers and projects max out at 8000 stars.
I don’t know what I had expected but I think it was bigger numbers than that.
With collaterals too I presume [1]. I guess I've been the victim of some automated system. They have banned my account without warning or explanation and they've been ignoring my support tickets for about 2 months!
https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Bright
Edit: I love clustering, I really do, but I think that techniques like the one I am using are far superior to unsupervised learning for trying to detect fake accounts in this context.
I first tried Google; the results are dominating by commercial crap.
Then I tried the "google reddit" trick to try and find some real people's opinions... but look at all the blatantly bullshit comments on this Reddit thread; https://www.reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comments/ae4cdg/good_ps...
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(if anyone is wondering, the best option for Windows is to use 'readpst' command via WSL. Comes in the 'pst-utils' package).
(The firm X, however, is a more well-known name than my ex-employer was).
A while ago, I listened to a Freakonomics episode where it was discussed that businesses use proxies to both boost their image and to cover up their incompetency. The example was that a lot of businesses chose fancy names starting with A (like, AAA plumbers), so that they get listed first in business directories. These firms were later proven to be very incompetent and/or even fraudulent.
The relevant paper, also cited in the episode, was "A Business by Any Other Name": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1667550.
I actually blogged my answer to that exact question recently (shameless plug):
I follow him on GitHub, and pay for some of his products. I have been heavily influenced by his coding styles, and the tools he uses. His code just looks so tight and perfect. He writes his stuff so open ended and reusable that he basically writes a method once, and then reuses it across numerous projects.
Look at this tight code: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/10.x/src/Illuminat...
I’d say that Adam Wathan is rapidly growing his influence as well, and is probably doing alright too.
It's unfortunate as I've seen stars used as a metric of trustworthiness in general user discussions.
> https://docs.github.com/en/sponsors/sponsoring-open-source-c...
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I rely heavily on this because it's somehow only after the comment is 'real' (i.e. staring back at me from a real HN thread) that I notice most of the edits I want to make.
i honestly dont even view my github readme as "marketing yourself". most pple dont even go to an individual's profile in the first place, but if you do its kinda like a cute little myspace thing where you can let people know you as a human being and be a little quirky. i certainly dont hold myself out as an authority on writing the best software in the world and hey if 40k stars on the react-typescript stuff doesnt count i'm alright with that
[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwattersandco/github-statistics
[2]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Acceptable...
https://twitter.com/Alexey__Kovalev/status/87184200877156761...
Else, ask for a new maintainer. While code can be considered done (especially if no new features are added), it should never go unmaintained. If it's actually used a lot of course.
Yes and yes.
>If the former, it looks quite impractical unless there are widely trusted bulk verifiers. E.g., state DMVs.
It's happened already in some cases, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-name_system
>If the latter, then it all looks quite prone to corruption once bots become as convincing correspondents as the median person
How about a requirement to personally know the other person in what hackers in the past called "meatspace"?
Just brainstorming here, but for a cohesive forum, even of tens of thousands of people, it shouldn't be that difficult to achieve.
For something Facebook / Tweeter scale it would take "bulk verifiers" that are trusted, and where you need to register in person.