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If I have a choice of two pieces of software I am definitely using the one with the most stars first. I never considered that authors might have paid for stars.

• mauvehaus 3y ago
  > I wonder, when you go to StackOverflow, if you would start by checking answers at the bottom since votes are so meaningless? I usually read from top down to the point where the answers get to a "have you tried sticking a fork in your toaster?" levels of bad if I don't already have enough domain knowledge to know whether an answer is good for myself. It's frequently of value to me to know what the wrong way of doing something is so that I don't inadvertently go down that road myself. It's also lower effort to read a stackoverflow answer before voting. I have greater confidence that the person voting may have actually read the answer than that a person starring a repo us actually looked at even the first bit of code.