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2026-04-29 06:07
Can We Solve Fake GitHub Stars?
GitHub stars were supposed to be a simple signal.
A project with more stars should, in theory, be more visible, more trusted, and more likely to be useful. It is a clean mechanism: lightweight, social, and easy to understand.
But like every visible reputation signal, it becomes valuable enough to game.
And once a signal becomes valuable, people start manufacturing it.
That is the core problem....
