[bsder]

I'm of two minds on this:

1) Good: This adds "just" a touch of friction to things. You can't just do a drive-by on the project like so many thanks to ill-advised "social good" corporate review policies (screw you, Google, for pioneering that). You have to at least star it which at least signifies some level of commitment, identity, and existence.

2) Bad: This causes an inflation war between those projects that do this organically and those that force people to star them. It squashes the signal in the idea of stars.

Github is going to have to remove identity from the stars if they want to stop this from descending into chaos.

[zokier]

You think stars before had some widely agreed upon common idea that was not chaotic?