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Most of the content appears to be in Korean. Can somebody provide an English summary of what happened?
The repo maintainer responds saying he agreed to the promotion as it is a way to show internally within the company that open source projects can be successful.
I didn’t read too much beyond that but that’s the gist of it.
It looks like SK Telecom (South Korea phone company) was paying people to sign up for GitHub and star things via a contest for gift cards and such. The project runner being starred, kyungtaak, was apparently complicit in it (according to Google Translate of the GitHub comments). They shut it down once the bad publicity started, deleted the original site promoting it, and archived the GitHub repo.
Just make project look more popular? Seems odd.
It looks like SK Telecom (South Korea phone company) was paying people to sign up for GitHub and star things via a contest for gift cards and such. The project runner being starred, kyungtaak, was apparently complicit in it (according to Google Translate of the GitHub comments). They shut it down once the bad publicity started, deleted the original site promoting it, and archived the GitHub repo.
Can someone narrate and explain what happened here? The page is in a foreign language and its contents have apparently since been changed. What happened?
> metatron discovery event
> Event period: 7/1 (Mon) - 7/20 (Sat)
> How to participate: Please comment on this post after capturing screen shot of STAR on metatron discovery in GitHub.
> Announcement of winners: 7/23 (Tue) (Individual will be contacted)
> Prize guide [projector, monitor, headphones, keyboard, coffee]
[1] 국내에서.. 특히 대기업내에서 이런 오픈소스 프로젝트가 유지될수 있을 것으로 생각하는 이는 거의 없을 것이라고 생각합니다. 이런 환경속에서 저희로써는 매년 매순간 이 프로젝트가 잘 될 수 있다고 증명해야했고, 그 중 하나가 star 의 개수였습니다. -> I do not think there will be many people in the domestic market that think that such open source projects can be maintained, especially in large corporations. In this environment, we had to prove every year that the project could work well, One of them was the number of stars. -- quote from a comment by kyungtaak, a contributor.
The core dev seems to be unapologetic about buying stars saying that managent tracks that to judge the viability of the project, and that many other projects do it.
It looks like SK Telecom (South Korea phone company) was paying people to sign up for GitHub and star things via a contest for gift cards and such. The project runner being starred, kyungtaak, was apparently complicit in it (according to Google Translate of the GitHub comments). They shut it down once the bad publicity started, deleted the original site promoting it, and archived the GitHub repo.
How’s this any different from all the “Follow on twitter, and RT to enter our Giveaway” promotions that happen?
It looks like SK Telecom (South Korea phone company) was paying people to sign up for GitHub and star things via a contest for gift cards and such. The project runner being starred, kyungtaak, was apparently complicit in it (according to Google Translate of the GitHub comments). They shut it down once the bad publicity started, deleted the original site promoting it, and archived the GitHub repo.
How’s this any different from all the “Follow on twitter, and RT to enter our Giveaway” promotions that happen?
> In GitHub, the weight of Star is heavier than you think. It is absolutely meaningful to mix in some leaps as to how devoted to the project are contributors, how high the completeness is, and how useful it is.