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cmrdporcupine
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ryandrake
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You can easily buy stars in bulk, like you can buy social media “likes” so they are kind of measuring the wrong thing and incentivizing the wrong behaviors.
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jefftk
8 hours ago
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It also strongly favors older projects, since stars don't expire and they've had longer to accumulate them.
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