Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks
by MaxBarraclough on Sunday December 27, 2020 @12:06PM
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> I thought the star button was a convenient way to keep track of projects you're interested in.
Not exactly, as star numbers are made public, meaning it's also a form of public approval.
Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks
by brigandish on Sunday December 27, 2020 @07:35PM
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Good point. I had a cross project issue come in to a small project of mine a few years ago. The maintainers of the other project actually brought up their much larger number of stars to (try to) belittle me. Since that day I’ve noticed the correlation between stars and the kind of response I’m apt to get, negative in both senses.
Re:Just Wanted to Say Thanks
by sonotmyname on Sunday December 27, 2020 @01:17PM
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More like a form of popularity, not necessarily approval.
> is it really considered so unusual for a someone to express gratitude to an open-source project?
I would say yes, it's very unusual. The general lack of basic civility is, in my opinion, just one more reason for the lack of diversity in projects and lowers the number of contributors to open source.