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StarScout

A tool that swept GitHub event data to detect suspected fake stars, flagging millions of them across tens of thousands of repositories before a stricter filtering pass.

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fake starsGitHub star counts inflated by accounts that did not organically star a repository, typically bought or bot-driven, distorting a project's apparent popularity.view term

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first used: jul 2026

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Open Source Has a Distribution Problem, Not a Building ProblemOpen source distribution decides whether your project gets found. A one-week census of 106 launches, and the title that scored 154 in one sub and 1 in another.meta-analysis1 min

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