I agree, it's benign behaviour but developer and companies should be aware of the potential for misuse. Specially, stars in Github should not be considered a pr

I agree, it's benign behaviour but developer and companies should be aware of the potential for misuse. Specially, stars in Github should not be considered a proxy for quality (I say this as the #2 most popular in star count in Japan). It's a warm reminder for the future, since as the JS ecosystem keeps growing exponentially people will very likely start to search for metrics such as star count to know what to trust. This made quite a bit of noise recently for instance: https://hasvuepassedreactyet.surge.sh/ https://hasvuepassedreactyet.surge.sh/