Thread:Project talk:WikiProject Bug Squad/Bug hunters need an advocate authority/reply (9)

You write "only to have it marked invalid when it clearly is valid". I disagree with this (or at least want to say that validity is something very subjective) - the bug was already fixed when it was reported and not existing anymore in the codebase at the moment of reporting it. I know that some bugtrackers use an ALREADYFIXED status for this, looks like this would have been the case here. Nobody stops bug reporters from keeping score, but everybody (also developers) can have interpret words and resolutions differently (if developer A wrote a patch to fix the problem but developer B calls it an ugly hack or workaround you can have the same conflicts about interpretation)...