I agree, that stars should not be used to rank the quality of the project, but they can be really useful. When I published the major release of my recent project (some newsletters, hacker news, etc.), stars on the GitHub helped me a lot.
If your project gets a lot of stars in a short period of time, it is shown on the trending page. This makes your project more visible to other news creators, which also make it more visible to the community.
After super fast growing, it is not soo much important anymore. However, it shows people, that project is noticed by a wider group of programmers.
Unfortunately, people use stars more like something, that tell them if it is worth to read more about a project at all, rather than a clue, that more people already know that, so maybe I should too.
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I agree, that stars should not be used to rank the quality of the project, but they can be really useful. When I published the major release of my recent project (some newsletters, hacker news, etc.), stars on the GitHub helped me a lot.
If your project gets a lot of stars in a short period of time, it is shown on the trending page. This makes your project more visible to other news creators, which also make it more visible to the community.
After super fast growing, it is not soo much important anymore. However, it shows people, that project is noticed by a wider group of programmers.
Unfortunately, people use stars more like something, that tell them if it is worth to read more about a project at all, rather than a clue, that more people already know that, so maybe I should too.