What happened with stars?

[anvaka]

Hi guys,

I was exploring BigQuery and your project drew my attention. This query:

SELECT actor, count(*) events FROM [githubarchive:github.timeline]
WHERE type = 'WatchEvent' AND 
              repository_url = 'https://github.com/Rohfosho/CosmosBrowserBackend'
GROUP BY actor
ORDER BY events desc

Yields 13,549 watch events, which means you should have ~13k stars on GitHub. However currently project has 214 stars, and most of the actors in the query seem to be fake users.

Just curious, did someone try to artificially increase amount of stargazers? What happened?

[rohfosho]

Hi, yeah, someone released a bot on our repository :/ GitHub took care of it though so we're good now.

[anvaka]

Interesting! Thanks for the quick response @rohfosho!