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I don't agree. The reporting party should feel guilty about not putting effort into providing system information and troubleshooting further and reporting their findings. This is exactly why Stack Overflow works so well: low quality questions are downvoted mercilessly, and closed if they aren't improved within a short time period. It is also why automated reporting tools provide a good amount of contextual information along with the error and stack trace.

Furthermore, not including a description of the issue along with the stack trace makes it impossible for other users to determine if they are experiencing the same issue or something else (since it is possible for two different bugs to produce the same stack trace, or even the same error message).




The alternative to a low quality bug report is usually no bug report. Démiurge is spot on.




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