[photonthug]

Seems obnoxious without a doubt, and particularly egregious if reporter is bringing/offering a fix. But maybe I should try to be open-minded about this? Issues that provide even badly written bug reports are probably doing a service to the project itself. Feature requests OTOH might just be internet strangers requesting free labor on someone's generously-public yet resource-starved passion project. In the 2nd case, and without speculating on why the project owner would even care.. maybe fake internet points in lieu of other payment is the least people can do. That said though, obviously if everyone does this, it will erode the signal of what stars are supposed to mean. Hmm.

[dmurray]

> if everyone does this, it will erode the signal of what stars are supposed to mean.

What signal? To me, starring a Github project means "I'm interested enough in this project to want to be able to find it again". That's a significantly lower bar than the poster had here, of "I've a new feature proposed for this project, and I'm even interested in implementing it myself if the maintainer agrees".

There's a loose correlation of stars with quality/popularity/ activity. All of those correlations should become stronger by having active users and bug reporters star the project.

[skywal_l]

> There's a loose correlation of stars with quality/popularity/ activity

Well if you're policy is to keep track of issues based on who stars the project, having a lot of stars means poor quality then.

I kind of understand their twisted logic but at the end of the day it just doesn't feel right.

There are plenty of projects who do not need this kind of policy to have a lot of stars.