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Over 3.1 million fake "stars" on GitHub projects used to boost rankings (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This doesn't surprise me at all... Just like bots in games. Selling a service that benefits another. Its shady, but definitely believable.

Also, what if this is an actual viable way to "market" for an open source project?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Right - the cost is your time instead of dollars.

I don't like doing stuff, so I give my time an hourly rate of $100. Absolute BEST case scenario (for me) would be that this is a weekend project, so call it 10 hours.

So my best case break-even point would be 10K stars. Which seems like it'd be more than I'd need?