What's a "real" star on GitHub? Most real users will click the star button after reading the README, it does not indicate that they like it or even tried it. Ha

What's a "real" star on GitHub? Most real users will click the star button after reading the README, it does not indicate that they like it or even tried it. Having a "star on GitHub" button in a judicious place on your project's website will already over-inflate your number of stars regardless of your project's quality. You don't have to be a professional developer to get a GitHub account either. The age of a project (or more precisely, how long it's been on GitHub) also has a massive impact on the stars. What was ever so good about the "N strangers clicked the icon" metric? Even when those users were human with a higher probability? > posing a security risk to all GitHub users Please tell me no one takes the "N strangers clicked the icon in the past" as a signal of "today's releases won't harm my computer".