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I think of the burden on the typical use case and think the current prompts should be sufficient.

What’s the star threshold? 1000? 5?

I’d hate to now have to type in the number of watchers and stars as part of the private/delete/move/etc prompt for all the times I know what I’m doing.

It’s a balance between punishing the non-stupid users vs protecting the stupid users. And people switch between these categories. I might be non-stupid today and stupid tomorrow.



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