alt Hacker NewsYou could make the same argument for rejecting all reports from third-parties in a pre-AI world though. It just seems like you're picking an arbitrary property to extrapolate a trend from when there are plenty of other similarly arbitrary properties you could extrapolate similar trends from. If I noticed that most bug reports that come on Tuesdays are low quality, I don't think it would make sense to have any bugs that get reported on Tuesdays get auto-closed, regardless of the statistical trend.
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wonnage • yesterday at 4:46 PM
Projects were already doing this by making you jump through hoops to submit an issue. It filters out the low effort chaff. I think asking for people (instead of their agents) to submit reports is on the same level.
> You could make the same argument for rejecting all reports from third-parties in a pre-AI world though.
No one did though, because the friction involved in finding and submitting bug reports meant that a single individual could not overwhelm a project in spurious reports.