What does the star button do on Github's gist section?For example: https://gist.github.com/1372818I have three buttons in the headline, they are: edit - download - (un)starWith the last one changing from star to unstar as I click on it. At first I thought it was an upvote system. But I can star my own code, and it doesn't mention some star appearing elsewhere. The next idea was a favorites icon or a bookmark. I can select starred gists but the page came up even before I starred it. The Github help didn't have anything about star, and the search box is for searching in code and in pages - not to search the help pages of github::gist.
On Github (gist) what is the star button used for?
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It's for you to keep track of gists that have made you smile or caught you off guard and you want to have a list of them stored at Github. It is just like a bookmark system. You mark a star on a gist you find interesting or like and then you can find them at a glance under your account at starred gists.The link to your starred gists will be there for your account, but if you have nothing, it will simply prompt you to create a new gist. One that you may star yourself.