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Re:Why isn’t someone using my software product or open sourc... by Timpy on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:16AM (#17644978)
I'm not trying to be inflammatory but I think the first issue that comes to mind is that giving stars at random kind of circumvents the meaning of stars.
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Re:Why isn’t someone using my software product or open sourc... by pnloyd on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:42AM (#17645239)
The the reason this is disliked is pretty obvious IMO. It's undermining the value of stars as an indicator of a projects health / usefullness. People explore tools and libraries on GitHub to incorporate into the work they do at their jobs. If this were to take off it could potentially make everyones job harder, yikes!
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