[TeMPOraL]

If we're talking issues (i.e. reports from external parties, like OSS users, and not internally defined tasks), then care is needed to avoid it working out like the Stack Overflow experience. What is it, you ask?

[Closed; Locked: not constructive; Duplicate of: #1701, #74656]

Users will fight such things for a simple reason: every larger OSS project has tons of open[0] issues that look like duplicates, and perhaps even are duplicates, but no one can tell because they're all ~forever old and unresolved, so new people keep adding them again to bring attention to them.

Perhaps Github should start sorting issues by "Last updated" instead of the issue number - then some of the duplicate reports would just turn into "+1"s and "bump!"s on the existing issues.

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[0] - Or closed by stale bot, which is effectively still open, but with an insult on top.

[withinboredom]

I refuse to work with projects with a stale bot. As if ignoring an issue will just magically resolve it. I also refuse to use products with a stale bot once I discover it is used; they are usually bug ridden due to uncovered issues being ignored.