[_lvbh]

What are stars even worth? Certainly not the number of possible contributors this chases away (I see issue reporters as contributors as well since they’re spending effort finding/debugging what you would have to do at some point anyways)

All this for a measly 1500 stars

[yeeeeeee]

Maybe to put the repository on a resume. Github also gives out free Copilot licenses to active contributors of opens-source/free-software projects but they don't say specifically what the requirements are. Maybe if you own or contribute to a repository with many stars you're eligible for that.

[randyrand]

It helps make the repo most popular

- more bug reports

- more community documentation

- more user testing

- etc