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by james-clef 59 days ago
People are definitely desperate to show traction. Especially for a fledgling project pre-revenue. Maybe this was rhetorical, but I think the answer is yes, people do care when you use the stars to try put together some story about how great your project is and how much people love it.
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It wasn't rhetorical; I genuinely did not realize anyone cared about stars.