<story><title>I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won&apos;t have to</title><url>https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Maybe this has been obvious or well known, but this was a revelation to me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It took six hours for my order to complete, and the accounts look legit; each has a profile picture, different companies that they work for, a couple of repositories, and a contribution to one or more open-source projects, next to being a GitHub member for over a year.&lt;p&gt;This is the motivation for garbage AI-generated PRs or insubstantial docs changes that &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; make. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if they&amp;#x27;re good. They only exist to add surface level legitimacy to fake accounts so that services like this one can exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jimmyl02</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve noticed this on producthunt too; there are lots of accounts which just summarize the post and you can tell they don&amp;#x27;t really know what the product is &amp;#x2F; have tried it. But other than that they seem completely legitimate.</text></comment>
<story><title>I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, so you won&apos;t have to</title><url>https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bastawhiz</author><text>Maybe this has been obvious or well known, but this was a revelation to me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; It took six hours for my order to complete, and the accounts look legit; each has a profile picture, different companies that they work for, a couple of repositories, and a contribution to one or more open-source projects, next to being a GitHub member for over a year.&lt;p&gt;This is the motivation for garbage AI-generated PRs or insubstantial docs changes that &amp;quot;people&amp;quot; make. It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if they&amp;#x27;re good. They only exist to add surface level legitimacy to fake accounts so that services like this one can exist.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CapmCrackaWaka</author><text>Exactly. I’ve denied so many PR’s which only fixed a typo in comments or some other trivial thing. I know what they’re doing.</text></comment>