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> 500 karma requirement is for downvoting, an anti-abuse measure

Yeah, right. And a star is anti-troll measure because they have to spend time reviewing the code for security issues or just validity, it's a minor reward for someone's time.

> So no, that's far off

I disagree, forced participation to be allowed to do something in both cases, except HN isn't reviewing my upvote unlike PRs.

> This behaviour is a clear as day extortion scheme yet you are aggressively defend it, which begs the question - why? Do you profit from similar schemes?

You are so entitled and being mean! What could one possible gain from a f*cking star? Even if they can gain from it so what? What do you lose?

What a mean attitude! Someone gains, you lose nothing and that is extortion in your entitled mind. Stop using open source software if you don't understand that you're not entitled to support you don't pay for and not every open source author will have the same rules and values as your those in your familiar bubble.