Misleading users for GitHub stars... that's a paddling! Maybe it's like the YouTube Like and Subscribe, except for the part where they contact you for new rele

Misleading users for GitHub stars... that's a paddling! Maybe it's like the YouTube Like and Subscribe, except for the part where they contact you for new releases. It's a lot less pushy to tell people to star your repo than asking them to subscribe to issues and become a contributor on equal footing. You need something like "stars" or "project member" as part of your contributor ladder. Did you know that YouTube channels cannot get a non-randomized URL or be searchable by the channel title unless you have 1000 subs? (How do you get 1000 subs when nobody can search for or find your channel unless you hand them a link? I guess by pounding pavement...) As an OSS maintainer, I don't think that stars do anything except for number go up, but you'd be surprised the things that "number go up" can help with.