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I hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.


It's a quick signal that the developer is capable of writing and maintaining code that can be used by many others.


Or that they're just a person who knows how to game stars. As Goodfart says, "When a measure becomes a target, it gets gamed beyond usefulness."


Although commits can be gamed on GitHub, stars are significantly harder to game as they require human accounts to be doing so.

You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.


> You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.

It’s not only feasible, it’s trivial.

https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-sta...


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140

> This package costed me 8.19 Euros for 100 stars which is €0.08/star.

Shoot for the stars, I guess.


I would not be surprised if you can buy quite a lot of them for cheap.


Yes, developer/platform advocacy/evangelism.




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