On 25 May 2010 14:45, Rosanne DiMesio <dime...@earthlink.net> wrote: > 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."
This would be like the "this is a problem for me too" field in Launchpad, and may be useful. - d.
