For me, this is a positive thing. With this, I can find some niche things that I can't find otherwise. People star it because it provides some value to them. I

For me, this is a positive thing. With this, I can find some niche things that I can't find otherwise. People star it because it provides some value to them. I wouldn't "like" project that are broken or half done, but I star it if it can solve my problem. On the other side, when somebody stars my project I will invest more energy into it because I see that it is useful to somebody else, not just me. Most of my projects are sparsely tested, because usually I'm the only user and it is not mission-critical. When it's broken I usually know where. When I see starts appearing on my project I add more tests and handle edge cases better, so new users have a better experience. If they would only bookmark it, I wouldn't know if somebody wants to use my software. And they would also have a bad experience, and maybe drop it after evaluating as a piece of crap.