[oliwarner]

It's quid pro quo, isn't it. The repo is buying stars with bug reporting as currency.

Which may well be against GitHub rules but more than that, it's a stupid thing to do. Bug reporting helps projects get better. They're blocking real bug reports until they get a star. Seems like self-harm to me.

[franciscop]

> Bug reporting helps projects get better

There's many cases where that's not true and indeed low-quality bug reports hurt the projects from getting better, specially for mid-to-high popular solo projects.

Think about it in more familiar terms, are more job offers good for searching for a job? It might seems so, but only if you think about well-timed high quality offers. Suddenly getting spammed on your email, linkedin, etc. with dozens+ of low-quality job offers would def not be helpful.

[skywal_l]

> There's many cases where that's not true and indeed low-quality bug reports hurt the projects from getting better, specially for mid-to-high popular solo projects.

So it's ok to report low quality bugs as long as you give stars?

I know that's not your argument, but this is what this thread is about.

[actionfromafar]

Maybe not, but at least they got a star out of it.

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[johnnyanmac]

Well yes. And like any good game you should report abuse of its features.