Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy
by az226 on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:09AM
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Much more important is who starred it. And are they selective about giving out stars or bookmarking everything. Forks is a closer signal to usage than stargazing.
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Re:GitHub's Fake Star Economy
by whilenot-dev on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:12AM
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Indeed, GitHub should set up a monthly quota for available stars to give and correlate the account age with it: either make something up like a "trusted-age-factor" that multiplies any given star by that factor, or scale the available quota accordingly by that factor (and let users star repos repeatedly).
GitHub should also introduce a way to bookmark a repo, additional to the existing options of sponsor/watch/fork/star-ing it.