Comment by ModernMech
1 day ago
Repo's been up for a week and already it has 14k stars.
Oh look, they are gaining stars at a rate of pretty much exactly 1400 per day: https://www.star-history.com/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&ty...
Yeah, nothing shady here at all.
Wow, rounded exactly to the hundreds? Or is that an artifact of star-history's data-collection?
Seems like this is an artifact / deliberate smoothing: Other tracker sites have unrounded data, and the github API does show a consistent growth instead of bursts at rounded intervals.
https://www.startrail.dev/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&legen...
The growth remains very artificial, a steady line instead of the real jitter than real stars would have.
Do people really buy stars for github? Would explain some of these crazy growths
Don't underestimate stars given by claws without direct instruction from humans. Not bought or sold, but not real either.
Once stars started becoming a marketable metric, it's pretty much inevitable that they would be purchasable. Same as any other bot review market I suppose
Apparently so. Posted 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621
Makes me wonder if there is a secret HN upvote economy too.
Edit: yep, quick search turned up a site to buy upvotes. All these vibe coded slop projects getting to the front page make sense now
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