I got gently admonished on here a while back for mentioning that I find those star graph things people put on their READMEs to have entirely the opposite effect than that which was intended. I see one of those and I'm considerably less likely to trust the project because a) you're chasing a stupider metric than lines of code, and b) people obviously buy stars.

Definite proof that github is social network for programmers.

Why would OpenAI have bought stars for openai-fm I wonder?

I should stop starring as a joke or as a bookmark...

hacker news should get rid of the upvotes, i thought that was the lamest part of the site that and the openai smooching

Social media platforms (like Instagram) have always had this problem of "buying" followers. There was an article some time ago where hollywood types would only give roles to people with high followers so people started buying followers.

Now that money is flowing to Github stars, no wonder people are buying fake "stars"? Seems capitalism is working as expected...

Wait I can sell my github account for 5k ? Wow

Maybe there is also fake upvote economy here.

Very obviously AI written, could tell by the end of the first sentence. Could've been a interesting read.. if you wrote it.