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?
Amazing. Good thing I don’t use GitHub :)
Why a real person would star a project? When I star a project then my GitHub home is littered with activity from that project. I hate that, so I never star anything
how is twidium managing to charge so much more?
shouldn’t this sort of thing destroy your algorithm ranking
Github is very naive and has 0 protection against spam-stars and multi-accounts.
You can buy any metric on the web. Amazon reviews, YouTube subscribers and likes, X followers, Reddit karma, …. I am not surprised that GitHub stars are one of them.
