[Grue3]

>You are ruining all the efforts that communities have made github stars a valuable indicator.

Nope, stars are a stupid popularity contest that shouldn't have been a feature of Github in the first place. Leave that sort of stuff to Instagram "influencers" or whatever.

[TheBystander]

While I do believe how many stars a repo has doesn’t represent the worthiness or sth, still IMO, exploiting nondev people by bribing them to give a star for the repo is quite an “uncool” thing to do.