[icc97]

No never, I could never read all that I've bookmarked.

It's purely there so that if I have a problem and I vaguely remember that I came across a solution that there's half a chance I can search for it in my bookmarks and find it.

It does serve a use on occasion - I typically star a bookmark that I came back to.

I've starred 74 out of the 10000 bookmarks that I've got. But I've been bookmarking for 10 years and only 'starring' things for about a year.

So ~7% (74 / 1000) I come back to.

[Dowwie]

You are confirming that you don't use the bookmarked material as resources to solve your problems and recognize how challenging it would be if you were to do so. :)

I gave up relying on starred repos as resources and just give them for recognition. I find repos just fine when I actually need them.

I wrote a github star purge script that would blow your mind if you were to use it -- no more stars!

[icc97]

I'd say I'm confirming that I use the resource about 7% of the time.

I use github stars in a similar fashion to you - just recognition. It's also kind of like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs - it's just a note to say 'I was here' to myself on the github repo.

I'm using pinboard stars differently though - it actively means that I've come back to that resource, it would be as if you could give a gold star to a github repo if you actually downloaded the code. I guess you could fork it, but I only fork something if I want to make changes rather than just use it.