To support their favorite project without having to do anything for it except writing a chat message? I’m assuming that OpenClaw can create its own GitHub account and give stars without a lot of human work.
So about 150 thousand people starred OpenClaw, then asked their bot to sign up for an account to star it again? I'm not trying to be obtuse, I'm just trying to get a sense of what we're talking about. Because if it is 1 person botting 300,000 stars (or 4x75k, etc), that costs real money. There needs to be a motive for that to be believable. If it is 150kx2, then that's a much wider (though still pretty unmotivated) phenomenon that someone would have blabbed about.
There are a bunch of open source projects that I want to see take off; I've never felt the urge to star one twice. I doubt that has to do with it being easier to say "Go star this project on github for me, with your own account" than it is to make a new account on github (which is not hard). I don't think that comes from any great moral fortitude, it's just...IMO hard for me to explain without an actual motive.
What's being alleged in this thread is widespread fraud via botting with no evidence of means or motive. As someone pointed out above, the argument for Facebook buying react stars is WAY stronger...and it is still really flimsy.
