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Thanks for doing that. I have personal strong aversion to spammers. To the point where their product doesn't matter, I'll just use/help a competitor instead.

Reaching out to the occasional person who stars a project, if there's some strong overlap of stuff then maybe sure. An automatic spam approach though... that's not on. That makes starring projects a "dangerous" thing for end users, as they'd have to be open to emails for every one. :/

And yeah, it did look useful up until this point. Lets see what their response to the GH issue is like. :)




Thank you for the feedback. Feedback like this will help us understand the best practices in community building. We have disabled the email trigger on starring. Thanks again for this open feedback.


No worries Uma. The project looks interesting, and it's even written in Go, so I'll probably take it for a spin in the next few weeks. :)


They just replied saying they disabled the emails.




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