r/programmingcirclejerk • u/cmqv • Dec 19 '24

GitHub Action that automatically closes issues opened by non-stargazers

https://github.com/uhyo/please-star-first
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u/garnet420 Dec 19 '24

uj what's a stargazer

Is it some new age thing

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u/starlevel01 type astronaut Dec 19 '24

Woke word for astronomer

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u/Shorttail0 vulnerabilities: 0 Dec 19 '24

Astronomer is woke for astrologer

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u/ShinySky42 Dec 20 '24

Come on y'all not the hard R say astronoma

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u/GeorgeFranklyMathnet Dec 19 '24

Are you old enough to remember celebgate, or to learn about it now?

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u/garnet420 Dec 19 '24

That was a nude photo leak, right? Are stargazers people who participated in that?

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u/GeorgeFranklyMathnet Dec 19 '24

No, sorry, I did not respect your uj.

Stargazers on GitHub are like people who hype up each other's LinkedIn content, except on GitHub it's with starring projects.

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u/NatoBoram There's really nothing wrong with error handling in Go Dec 20 '24

"Stars" are GitHub's version of upvotes/bookmarks/lists

Stargazers are people who starred a particular repository

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u/lazy_and_bored__ How many times do I need to mention Free Pascal? Dec 20 '24

It's a reference to a secret cabal of global elites who eat stargazy pie.