[abstract_put]

Even worse than that - you have to go into the "danger zone" on GitHub, and then there's a big banner that says "Warning: Potentially destructive operation" and also the gates you mentioned.

They bypassed numerous sanity checks and then clicked the button that did exactly what it told them it would do, and now they're sad.

Do stars on GitHub _do_ anything? Usually I'm a bit put off by any kind of internet point begging, but I'm curious what the impact of losing them is. Is it mostly a signal of "I like this"?

[errcorrectcode]

Discarding self-validation social media-ing, stars xlate into discoverability and ranking algo positions for the starred and bookmarks for the starrer.

[ReleaseCandidat]

> Is it mostly a signal of "I like this"?

It's a bookmark in theory (in 'Your stars'), but more or less just a 'like'.