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If you like the project please consider to like *here* and share *here* and I would be very happy if you leave a comment.

@bagder WTAF?! That's literally a Goodhart's law in action.

@bagder I say let it rot. They knew what they were getting into with this behaviour.

@bagder The stars are the bug counter? I always misunderstood!

@bagder Ew, that's gross. Also auto-closing after a certain time is frustrating. I saw one years old issue recently that people are commenting on every month so it doesn't expire.

the hacker news thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38691652

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Naming and shaming seems appropriate to stave off this behaviour!

@bagder Oh boy! That is absolutely annoying and also just strange.

@bagder GitHub has ruined things. This nonsense never happened on Sourceforge or CodePlex. Or on Bugzilla or Mantis instances.

@bagder wow...that's quite a scary trend!

@bagder Surely internet points aren't that important to someones self worth

@bagder @pierreprinetti this is how you get that lost star back.

@bagder throw eggs at the devs, put them in trash cans, give them swirlies, bully them till they stop

@bagder it's the last thing that would make me want to star a repo… 🤦‍♂️

@bagder wtaf

@bagder How to make me not want to star your project (I literally star every project I find remotely interesting).

@bagder when @BrodieOnLinux made the video on how bots closing issues might be problem, I thought isn't he overreacting. I guess I was wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lYgB_NHFYk

@bagder To be fair, the project in question seems to have stopped this. It's an awful practice nonetheless.

@bagder
Whooot?

You cannot report issues unless you "starred" the repository?

If it helps I can *stare* at it in disbelief for a few minutes.

@bagder Christ. What is even the point. I think at that I would be doing my best to find a replacement.

@bagder Star, comment, report project, bot, and author for abuse.

@bagder This project in question reverted that. And it may even be in violation with GH ToS.

Details: https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/issues/374

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@bagder Where is this?

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Wtf

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Y'know, most of the time when I report a bug, it's as a contribution to the project. The fix itself is rarely useful to me because I've either patched it myself or worked around it.

@bagder name and shame them!

@bagder I favorited your toot, what do I get now?

@bagder All these started with the 'stale issues' bot. Closing issues automatically based on activity, instead of its merit is a brain-dead concept, IMO. This tendency arises from the social-media-attention-economy where online activity is projected as a status symbol. By promoting the idea that open issues are bad, they're also conditioning people into performing free labor.

@bagder ewww, that's even worse than "join our discord to ask questions".

@bagder That seems so much worse than the trend of auto closing issues :/

@bagder well that is just gross and I hope their project is absorbed by a better team.

@bagder Wait until "Github influencers" starts being used as a term, then we'll know it's over :blobcatgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands:

@bagder that’s worse than those bots that close an issue if you haven’t talked in a week, smh

@bagder would they roll back the fix if the user would **un-star** the project later on? asking for a friend 😅

@bagder I get the appeal of filtering requests for free work, by some minimal friction. But GitHub starts? Really? 😬

@bagder "Your support is appreciated but we will ignore it."

@bagder crazy shit!

@bagder more than 50% of the people watching this repo have not starred it. What are you waiting for?