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Late Night Linux – Episode 222

Late Night Linux

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How to Buy Stars for Your Github Repository

People buy stars for their Github repose. It's like buying likes or retweets of youtube videos and instagram posts. If there's money to be made selling it then people will invest time and energy in making a system to exploit it. i think it's a lazy community management measurement metric how many stars have we got on our project on GitHub? "It reeks of those youtube channels that have got hundreds and hundreds or thousands of subscribers and no views because they've just either bought them or just spammed them"

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