> Allowing duplicates is fine, the important stuff comes up again whilst the unimportant bits die off. You lose a lot of context from other reporters, and some

> Allowing duplicates is fine, the important stuff comes up again whilst the unimportant bits die off. You lose a lot of context from other reporters, and some discussion that could happen between reporters. All of this allows diagnosing an issue, and sometimes solving it without input from the team ("ah, this 3 years old bug? I solved it, turns out I had faulty memory, check yours"). I dislike closing them, especially as github only has two states: open and closed, and doesn't distinguish with invalid, wontfix, fixed, stale, needinfo, etc. At least they are still searchable and interactable with when closed, but who thought it was a god idea to lock them? All the original subscribers won't be notified of new discussion on the topic.