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Comment by dafi70
Honest question: how can VCs consider the 'star' system reliable? Users who add stars often stop following the project, so poorly maintained projects can have many stars but are effectively outdated.
A better system, but certainly not the best, would be to look at how much "life" issues have, opening, closing (not automatic), and response times.
My project has 200 stars, and I struggle like crazy to update regularly without simple version bumps.