On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote:
honestly this is getting a bit over complex and silly! Should we also have google +1s and fb likes? What about # of blog posts? number of upvotes on on reddit? These are all great marketing metrics, but they dont help an end user understand which libs are *used*. 

github stars are not a measure of quality, but more of wow/coolness factor. 

lets try to stick to metrics that correspond to library usage and volume of developer activity

+1

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