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Re:Ask HN: Is fake GitHub profile data a thing? by ergl on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:01AM (#31651992)
> Most of the repos have five to ten stars each, but if you open them up they are basically the same people over and over starring all the repos.

As a datapoint, this happens in a few of my repos. There's really nothing interesting in some of them (homework assignments from when I was in college), but there are a couple of profiles who star almost all my repos. I don't know them in real life, don't know where they came from.

Re:Ask HN: Is fake GitHub profile data a thing? by synu on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @06:39AM (#31652204)
Yeah, interesting. I was wondering if something like that could be happening.