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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

This doesn't surprise me at all... Just like bots in games. Selling a service that benefits another. Its shady, but definitely believable.

Also, what if this is an actual viable way to "market" for an open source project?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-31-million-fake-stars-on-github-projects-used-to-boost-rankings

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

shouldn't this sort of thing destroy your algorithm ranking

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Github is very naive and has 0 protection against spam-stars and multi-accounts.

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