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		minimaxir 61 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are hon... Although commits can be gamed on GitHub, stars are significantly harder to game as they require human accounts to be doing so. You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.

latexr 60 days ago | [–]

> You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.

It’s not only feasible, it’s trivial.

https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-sta...

nurettin 60 days ago | | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140

> This package costed me 8.19 Euros for 100 stars which is €0.08/star.

Shoot for the stars, I guess.

skylurk 61 days ago | [–]

I would not be surprised if you can buy quite a lot of them for cheap.

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