> I know I don't have the time, so I use stars on a Github project just like one might use word-of-mouth. Up to a certain point, stars can be useful as it help

> I know I don't have the time, so I use stars on a Github project just like one might use word-of-mouth. Up to a certain point, stars can be useful as it helps you discover projects other people have found of use. But saying project X is better than project Y because it has more stars? What does it show other than more people using X are on github or people using X a more prone to push the star button? For reference, bootstrap has 100K stars, Linux has 40K...