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Is it just me or the fact that Dagster has one of their competitors Mage.ai listed here as a repo with around 15% of fake stars seems like an odd coincidence?

say_it_as_it_is 4y ago
It shouldn't be a surprise. Why are you surprised? Do you often pursue random activities irrelevant to your life for dozens of hours?
- coolsank 4y ago
  Yes I do.
- zeroonetwothree 4y ago
  Pretty standard for anyone ND
janalsncm 4y ago
If you’re going to accuse a competitor of fraud, writing a blog post showing your work seems like the most safe way to do it. People lie with statistics all the time of course.
speedgoose 4y ago
They don’t mention what I think is their biggest competitor: Prefect.
- frasermarlow 4y ago
  [Blogpost author here] We ran the numbers for Prefect and several other repos in our space and they came out clean. As we note in the article, while some repos game the system, from what we can tell the number of abusers is actually fairly small.
  - julienfr112 4y ago
    or they used a more sophisticated star provider ?
TheDong 4y ago
I mean, they explain it at the top: > we track our own GitHub star count along with that of other projects. So when we spotted some new open-source projects suddenly racking up hundreds of stars a week, we were impressed. In some cases, it looked a bit too good to be true, and the patterns seemed off If their competitor has fake-looking star counts, I'd expect them to be the ones best equipped and most likely to suspect it.
bart_spoon 4y ago
It’s possible that was the impetus of the blog post. Maybe they suspect Mage.ai of astroturfing GitHub stars and investigate it as above. They then publish a blog post that: 1. Indicates the astroturfing without actually specifically calling them out 2. Does so in a way where others can verify their work and use it on other repos 3. Uses their product to do so Seems pretty brilliant to me.

say_it_as_it_is 4y ago

It shouldn't be a surprise. Why are you surprised? Do you often pursue random activities irrelevant to your life for dozens of hours?

coolsank 4y ago
Yes I do.
zeroonetwothree 4y ago
Pretty standard for anyone ND

janalsncm 4y ago

If you’re going to accuse a competitor of fraud, writing a blog post showing your work seems like the most safe way to do it. People lie with statistics all the time of course.

speedgoose 4y ago

They don’t mention what I think is their biggest competitor: Prefect.

frasermarlow 4y ago
[Blogpost author here] We ran the numbers for Prefect and several other repos in our space and they came out clean. As we note in the article, while some repos game the system, from what we can tell the number of abusers is actually fairly small.
- julienfr112 4y ago
  or they used a more sophisticated star provider ?

TheDong 4y ago

I mean, they explain it at the top: > we track our own GitHub star count along with that of other projects. So when we spotted some new open-source projects suddenly racking up hundreds of stars a week, we were impressed. In some cases, it looked a bit too good to be true, and the patterns seemed off If their competitor has fake-looking star counts, I'd expect them to be the ones best equipped and most likely to suspect it.

bart_spoon 4y ago

It’s possible that was the impetus of the blog post. Maybe they suspect Mage.ai of astroturfing GitHub stars and investigate it as above. They then publish a blog post that: 1. Indicates the astroturfing without actually specifically calling them out 2. Does so in a way where others can verify their work and use it on other repos 3. Uses their product to do so Seems pretty brilliant to me.