Are GitHub Stars being gamed? Developer questions inflated metrics for incubator startups
dosco · x · 2026-08-02
A developer recently noticed that some incubator startups are accumulating a suspiciously large number of GitHub stars for fairly new projects. Expressing skepticism, they argued that GitHub stars are totally gamed and hard to trust. This sparked a discussion about the manipulation of open-source popularity metrics.
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