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With regards to whether when it finds a legitimate bug, it should be given weight?
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With regards to whether a blanket ban has a payoff
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Why would the difference matter? A bug report is valid or it isn't.
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A lot of bug reports aren’t valid, or handle a case that can’t realistically happen or realistically be handled (eg what do you do if you detect a crash while the prior crash is crashing and the logging pipe is throwing errors)
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Sure but this is true regardless of the model. Either it found a bug or it didn't—who cares about the intermediary steps or tools used so long as the reporter can reproduce it?
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