Starring a Github repository has some interesting connotations attached with it. Github uses it for ranking repository popularity while stating it's use a form of bookmarking.<p>I personally feel that starring is one of the most underutilized features. How do you interact with a project once you star it? Do you revisit them often? Does a project's # stars signal reliability / adoption / hotness?
Stars certainly influence how people perceive a repo. If there are no stars, then I'm less likely to look at it. The problem is that it's also a catch-22. If you have a lot of stars, more people look, and more people star. It's self fulfilling, definitely not a perfect system.
I use Astral to filter/search through my starred repos<p><a href="http://astralapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://astralapp.com/</a>