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by Dowwie 3292 days ago
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!

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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.