[devmunchies]

Same. Another reason is I don't like how Github inserts "Forked from ..." in the project name. If your "fork" becomes extremely divergent after a couple years (maybe you had a different vision for the project), you are still stuck with the "Fork from..." sub-header, which basically tells users that they should look at the original. I'm otherwise fine putting attribution in a README.

[djur]

Right, the entire point of GitHub forks is to make it easier to upstream your local changes to the original repository. If you have no interest in doing that you shouldn't use a fork.

[account42]

Which is pretty much the opposite of what fork used to mean before GitHub...

[slikrick]

you know you can fork dead and abandoned projects right?

[djur]

Sure, you can. It might not be a good idea in the long term.