https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/
Article
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Investigation into paid fake GitHub stars inflating repo popularity
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VCs explicitly use star counts as sourcing/traction signals at seed stage
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Median star count at seed is ~2,850; easy to manufacture artificially
Discussion
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Commenters baffled VCs use stars as investment signal at all
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Goodhart’s Law cited repeatedly: stars became a target and stopped being a measure
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Suggestions: PageRank-style graph metrics would be harder to game than raw counts
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Fake contributors/forks/issues likely next frontier
Discuss on HN
