Doesn't this just cause more noise and notifications, not less? A stale issue can be ignored, a closed issue may be duplicated. Whenever I came across these is

Doesn't this just cause more noise and notifications, not less? A stale issue can be ignored, a closed issue may be duplicated. Whenever I came across these issues, I'd just open up a new issue and link to the old one and politely ask if they planned on addressing it or not.