I think the GitHub 'awesome' lists are really awesome! However, maintaining them is a struggle - as they grow in size, quality tends to be an issue as links become broken, repos become renamed. Furthermore, as lists grow in size, it becomes harder to find the more significant projects.
This bot (which is very much in beta) is designed to help improve the quality of awesome lists by link checking, following redirects, adding star counts and more ...
I am currently beta-testing this functionality on a number of lists.