I agree on the gamification, but I think they are still useful. I mean this project has 18k stars that just tells me it’s popular. It’s possible they bought fa

I agree on the gamification, but I think they are still useful. I mean this project has 18k stars that just tells me it’s popular. It’s possible they bought fake stars but at 18k that would be strange. I think stars are useless for comparing a 17k project to an 18k project and anyone comparing that way would be flagged by me as not so smart. But it is useful to distinguish something with just a few stars from thousands. The challenge is that there’s not really a good way to tell what a successful project is short of looking at it closely and using it. I’d like a better measure, but this is what we have.