Voting for own bugs not allowed?

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Tue, 25 May 2010 10:27:00 +0200
Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> For users votes might be confusing as well. They think voting gives a
> bug more priority to fix but as I already mentioned
> I doubt it helps (it could help for commercial Wine distributions).
> 

+1
It's definitely misleading to users. There are sporadic posts on the forum urging people to vote for a bug, as if it made a difference, and angry posts that bugs that have lots of votes aren't fixed yet. The one purpose I can see it serving is that a bug can be "confirmed by popular vote" and the status changed to new if a couple of people vote for it. That's why users shouldn't vote for their own bugs--the point is independent confirmation. So I'm all for removing the field, but if it's kept, I suggest at least changing the wording from "vote" to something like "confirm you can reproduce this bug."

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Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>