Comment 17 for bug 149775

We are not trying to embrass anything here. We just want to have a channel (one besides the frustrated comment) for people to give feedback. In the dream scenario if the bug has 500 votes it won't be any more low priority, because the community now perceives this as a problem.

As Jordan Mantha mentions the problem is actually find a developer. This would be an excellent way to have a map where a little fix can make very many people happy and the community could direct the scarce developer resource better. There are lots of students etc. hobbyist who are ready to tackle problems and ofter ask on the mailing list "what could I do?"

@Sitsofe Wheeler: In your alternative world the developers don't need to hear from the users and they live in their own happy bubble. The truth is that 90% feedback is negative and people just must accept this fact - you learn to live with it when you get a lot of feedback. That's why scandal and accident news sell well. Since we already have seen that popular bugs to lead a comment flood (and a lot of extra subscriptions and more comments "why I am getting all this shit") the voting system would be actually a better solution for this problem.