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https://httpie.io/ has a star display on the homepage, and the story https://httpie.io/about alludes to the star count:
> That humble tool, which we open-sourced, quickly captured developers’ hearts and rapidly became one of the top projects on GitHub.
> We’ve raised a Seed Round ...
It's not hard to believe the seed round and the entire pitch of the commercial venture was tied to the star count, and it's not hard to believe that the author would drop $1/star to restore the count.
GitHub doesn't use foreign keys[1], and there's likely many tables related to all the users, notifications, permissions, etc... that would need to be cleaned up. Without foreign keys they likely have some system process that does this instead of a simple `DELETE FROM` which cascades.
1. https://github.com/github/gh-ost/issues/331#issuecomment-266...
https://github.com/rubysherpas/paranoia is enough to solve problems at very large scales.
There is nothing about Rails or MVC preventing someone from doing this. This is a very common design principle for all kind of ERP and BPM systems: don't ever delete anything.