It is reported that the GitHub Stars function has been abused and 50 stars can be bought for $6.

CTOnews.com, October 30, GitHub's Stars function can be understood as like on moments to show support and approval for related projects. Users can click the button in the upper right corner of the project to add stars to the project itself. These stars are of certain positive significance to the project itself and to the author.

However, according to foreign media Wired, this Stars function has been abused, and 50 Stars can be purchased by paying virtual currency worth $6 (CTOnews.com Note: about 44 yuan) on the grey platform of trading GitHub Stars. In addition to Stars, Forks, Watchers and Follower of the project can also be purchased separately or in combination.

▲ Picture Source Foreign Media Wired

The grey platform foreign media on which ▲ sells Stars believe that many job seekers use the number of Stars in their GitHub projects as their "gold-lettered signboards" to "whitewash their facades", so the relevant grey market was born, which also led to the phenomenon of "Bad money drives out good".

Foreign media believe that it is not only these indicators that really determine the success of job seekers, but also their ability to store knowledge. At present, the outside world has begun to realize that the evaluation method of using "Stars" is not reliable, and the GitHub platform is also cracking down on these fake accounts specially used to swipe data.