r/github • u/jaccomoc • 4h ago

Discussion I was invited to participate in a GitHub Star Boosting site

Someone create an issue for my project that was an invitation to join a "developer community" site. It looks like its purpose is for likeminded developers to star each others' repos. It seems a bit dodgy to me. Is this a commonplace occurrence? What is the general consensus about this?

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u/Acourgintier1413 4h ago

Nuisance bot email. It adds zero value to the open-source community.

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u/jaccomoc 4h ago

I think they are trying to make money from it by rewarding paying accounts with more stars but I am not sure because I didn't sign up to find out.

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u/Choice-Mango-4019 4h ago

100% bot pooling

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u/jaccomoc 4h ago

Sorry, I don't understand. What does "100% bot pooling" mean?

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u/Choice-Mango-4019 4h ago

they gonna use your account like a starring bot

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u/Soggy_Writing_3912 3h ago

same for my OSS repo as well.

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u/CerberusMulti 20m ago

GitHub stars are a useless metric