No more "me too" posts.

[Dotan Cohen]

> Note that most of us defending "me too"s are also trying to encourage
> the additional info bit, without attempting to quash any "me too"
> activity altogether (which you appear to be doing - or have I
> misunderstood your intent there?)
>

If you are adding valuable information, such as "my Foobar computer
with XYZ video and KLM
memory experiences a similar problem under ABC conditions", that would
be great. But just saying "me too" helps no one.

> The grass roots feedback to the effect "this is a wide spread issue" is
> important. I suspect that there will be a reply of the like "the devs
> know if an issus is widespread..." forming in your mind.

Not at all, I don't expect that the devs would know anything that is
not explicitly reported.

> While I'm sure
> this is *sometimes* true - if I had a dollar for every time I'd seen a
> case of devs suggesting bugs are specific to a user's system or result
> of misconfiguration - only to be proved wrong by a flurry of "me
> too"s... I'd be able to buy a lot of beer :-)
>

It has been said that if Bill Gates had a nickel for every bug in
Windows, he'd be a billionaire!

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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