[RobRivera]

Github stars are such a terrible metric, completely gameable. The facy it is taken seriously appalls me.

[eikenberry]

They are bookmarks. The more people who bookmark something the more attention it has. That attention is what you care about and is why that has become a metric people use (that and the fact that there is little else).

[coldtea]

>(that and the fact that there is little else).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect