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I thought the star button was a convenient way to keep track of projects you're interested in. > is it really considered so unusual for a someone to express gr
by brigandish 6y ago
I thought the star button was a convenient way to keep track of projects you're interested in.
> is it really considered so unusual for a someone to express gratitude to an open-source project?
I would say yes, it's very unusual. The general lack of basic civility is, in my opinion, just one more reason for the lack of diversity in projects and lowers the number of contributors to open source.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> I thought the star button was a convenient way to keep track of projects you're interested in. Not exactly, as star numbers are made public, meaning it's also a form of public approval.
- sonotmyname 6y agoMore like a form of popularity, not necessarily approval.
- brigandish 6y agoGood point. I had a cross project issue come in to a small project of mine a few years ago. The maintainers of the other project actually brought up their much larger number of stars to (try to) belittle me. Since that day I’ve noticed the correlation between stars and the kind of response I’m apt to get, negative in both senses.