That ought to make people stop complaining that Toady doesn't fix enough long-standing bugs for a week or two.
Not even a week. Or even a day. There's already thread's discussing/complaining about their personal ire bug.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Should we not have a bug tracker at all? Toady certainly seems to want the bugs removed from his game, and wants to hear from those who have found them. Why so against Toady's success?
EDIT:
Kogut's bug voting thread has been an entirely constructive exercise, in that it both identified the bugs which players most wanted Toady to work upon, and in that it let players be and feel listened to, which is the
exact thing that prevents more serious griping.
You can say all you want that people are being unreasonable when their complaints escalate the less they are heard, but in actuality, they are being entirely reasonable. It is the only reasonable thing to do, when you are yelling "fire", and everyone refuses to listen, or insults you for trying, to make an even more dramatic gesture until you are heard.
The cause of the unrest is not unreasonable players, but the people in this thread who so aggressively try to drive out other players and disdain the playerbase as a whole for wanting to play the game and be heard. You are the ones at fault for being so unreasonable to people wanting to make their voices heard, especially on an issue that should so obviously be heard as a bug report.
Shoot the messenger all you want, but some confrontations need to be forced.