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HN makes sense because votes shouldn't decide about the value of a comment. That's why the votes are hidden. You would destroy threads where people reply to your 'bad' comments.

Github on the other hand doesn't make sense at all. People participate voluntarily. Which infringement did the lawyers bring up?

This is still such a nice idea. Have you considered relaunching it with gitlab and sourcehut?

*edit: You have pitched your project differently: "Show HN: Give and Get more GitHub stars" [1]

That's ranking manipulation. No social network can tolerate that. I would restart the project and keep the ranking on my site. People will still benefit because their projects get known. Additionally, they will receive genuine stars from the people who discovered and liked their projects.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17593827