I run a tiny site that basically gave a point-at-able definition to an existing adhoc standard. As part of the effort I have a list of software and libraries following the standard on the homepage. Initially I would accept just about anything but as the list grew I started wanting to set a sort of notability baseline.

Specifically someone submitted a library that was only several days old, clearly entirely AI generated, and not particularly well built.

I noted my concerns with listing said library in my reply declining to do so, among them that it had "zero stars". The author was very aggressive and in his rant of a reply asked how many stars he needed. I declined to answer, that's not how this works. Stars are a consideration, not the be all end all.

You need real world users and more importantly real notability. Not stars. The stars are irrelevant.

This conversation happened on GitHub and since then I have had other developers wander into that conversation and demand I set a star count definition for my "vague notability requirement". I'm not going to, it's intentionally vague. When a metric becomes a target it ceases to be a good metric as they say.

I don't want the page to get overly long, and if I just listed everything with X star count I'd certainly list some sort of malware.

I am under no obligation to list your library. Stop being rude.