Submit a Radar, or GTFO ⇥

Daniel Pasco notes that filing radars is a great thing (duh), and that duplicating existing radars is even better:

Frequently, at least one other person will have reported the issue that you did. A lot of people get frustrated by this, because they think that their report has been summarily dismissed […]

Filing a duplicate bug is your way of up-voting, or bumping, a reported issue. The more duplicates that show up for a specific issue, the higher priority that issue becomes.

Well said. If you want to encourage people to duplicate your radar and ensure that something gets fixed, OpenRadarHelper is a great Safari extension by Guillaume Campagna. It posts radars filed through Apple’s Bug Reporter to OpenRadar, and vice-versa, so you can link people to the OpenRadar copy. Smart.