@madiko @richlv @bert_hubert from a HN comment thread:

"""This cheats the other users (like me or you) -- if we are looking at the project's star count, you are likely trying to judge project's popularity and get a measure of how many people like it.

And dae's star count is basically a lie - it does not represent how many people liked it, but rather how many people had found annoying bugs in it. [...] And as you said, other projects who don't have this practice are in disadvantage."""