[pawadu]

> I know I don't have the time, so I use stars on a Github project just like one might use word-of-mouth.

Up to a certain point, stars can be useful as it helps you discover projects other people have found of use. But saying project X is better than project Y because it has more stars? What does it show other than more people using X are on github or people using X a more prone to push the star button?

For reference, bootstrap has 100K stars, Linux has 40K...

[hardwaresofton]

Oh I definitely am not trying to imply you should use a project just because it has more stars -- maybe the right term was "hype" instead of word-of-mouth