I'm a star inflater and I feel a little bad about it. AFAIK GitHub does not have a good "bookmark" mechanism besides stars. So when I come across an interesting/useful project I'll start it to be able to find it later. My browser bookmarks have become a bit of a black hole where URLs go to get lost.
So hopefully I didn't bookmark a project someone else is trying to judge the quality of based on stars. Who knows how much technical debt or damage I've caused because GitHub doesn't have a bookmark feature that isn't gamified.
So hopefully I didn't bookmark a project someone else is trying to judge the quality of based on stars. Who knows how much technical debt or damage I've caused because GitHub doesn't have a bookmark feature that isn't gamified.