Hello,
I got some replys at other places (bug tracker and private email). As I want to keep the discussion on the mailinglist I will place my arguments for voting here:
1. Not all bugs I report are important to me. I sometimes just fill in bugs when I find them but they don't mean much to me. 2. Not all bugs stay important to me. For example when I no longer play a game I might want to remove my vote from that game to show that less people are interested in getting the bug fixed. 3. Bugzilla allows you to vote for your own bugs. If it's not intended that you vote on your own bugs then it should not be possible.
I heard already the following argument against voting for your own bugs:
It produces addtional noice.
-> I don't understand this argument. Voting doesn't cause emails to be send as far as I know. Only when you are the _second_ one who vote for a bug then the bug gets auto confirmed.
And the following explanation why voting for my own bug has not been received well: "Hmm could it possibly be because you cannot in most systems of democracy propose a candidate and second them as well? "
-> I don't know a voting process where you can't vote for your own suggestion. At least here in germany you don't need to show for whom you have voted. So you can even vote for yourself if you are on the list and I assume most candidates do so.
Best regards, Florian