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1. ok1234+Mh[view] [source] 2026-01-02 04:29:02
>>xpe+(OP)
100% agree.

If it's someone else's project, they have full authority to decide what is and isn't an issue. With large enough projects, you're going to have enough bad actors, people who don't read error messages, and just downright crazy people. Throw in people using AI for dubious purposes like CVE inflation, and it's even worse.

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2. throwa+lI[view] [source] 2026-01-02 09:29:14
>>ok1234+Mh
The trouble here is that github issues is crap. Most bug trackers have ways to triage submissions. When a rando submits something, it has status "unconfirmed". Developers can then recategorize it, delete it, mark it as invalid, confirm that it's a real bug and mark it "confirmed", etc. Github issues is mostly a discussion system that was so inadequate that they supplemented it with another discussion system.
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3. codefl+6O[view] [source] 2026-01-02 10:28:00
>>throwa+lI
> Most bug trackers have ways to triage submissions. When a rando submits something, it has status "unconfirmed". Developers can then recategorize it, delete it, mark it as invalid, confirm that it's a real bug and mark it "confirmed", etc.

As far as I'm aware, most large open GitHub projects use tags for that kind of classification. Would you consider that too clunky?

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4. antonv+OI1[view] [source] 2026-01-02 17:12:51
>>codefl+6O
The classification here is not what type of issue it is, it's whether it's an issue or not. Creating an issue for things that aren't issues is fundamentally broken. There's no way to fix that except by piling bad design on bad design to make it so that you can represent non-issues using issues and have everything still be somewhat usable.
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