> who have made things useful to at least 15 other developers Then why not look how many stars one's repos have? That seems a much better metric to me. A frie

> who have made things useful to at least 15 other developers Then why not look how many stars one's repos have? That seems a much better metric to me. A friend of mine has hundreds of stars on their repos but only 30 followers. I have around a hundred stars on my repos but only 20 followers. Conversely, I've seen people who are into networking, have a lot of GitHub followers, and no meaningful repos at all.