The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest

“GitHub is no different. It’s a market of attention because there are mechanisms by which people acquire notoriety and influence and reputation through how popular or how widely used their software is.”

Tech recruiters will know all about GitHub stars, public signals of support by software developers on another developers open source project. This sort of community endorsement translates into opportunity, and exploitation inevitably follows. Fascinating story on the black market for GitHub stars.PS: made me think actually, if LinkedIn endorsements ever had any credibility, might there have been a black market for those?