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by dferlemann 4432 days ago
Instead, I had to hunt down the person who wrote bugs with only titles and severity level critical....
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"unable to reproduce / not enough information" -> close.

If users want you to fix a bug, they should assume you're an idiot and can't extrapolate what their problems is from the title alone.

"It depends". If I'm getting this out of a user support case, I can't really do that. The support person in question might get an earful... actually, tense correction, support people have gotten earfuls from me on the virtues of filing the moral equivalent of "it doesn't work"... but for the customer's sake I can't just smash the bug report closed and smile smugly.