We should probably also figure out a way to close a ton of these.
I would advocate, as a temporary measure to clear our backlog of these (which is quite massive, to the point that I thought they were okay) we encourage mods to instaclose any bug report questions that have not seen meaningful activity since the Oneiric release.
While mods already have this power, they (seem to) usually avoid it for its heavyhandedness and lack of community process. Our community process is outgunned. We would have to spend weeks (months?) worth of limited-resource close votes to achieve the same effect. I am proposing a one-time community mandate to redirect the ship of site.
Ostensibly this mandate would have a name (eg Bug Report Redirection Month) and well-established community approval, so that mods could point to it in case of backlash.
If this answer receives some upvotes and not too many downvotes (and moderators are willing), I'll open a chatroom and we'll all hash out the details. Alternately, if mods don't think a big community pow-wow is necessary to start doing this, I'd fully support them jumping to it right away.
EDIT: A number of community members are now collaborating on this. No need for a special mandate; just starting closing. Basically, the procedure is to find bugreport-style questions, leave the following pro-forma commentpro-forma comment...
###Really a bug
This question should instead be filed as a bug report, and [as such](httphttps://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/1317/what-to-do-with-questions-that-describe-known-bugs/) is off-topic, thanks! [Instructions here](http://$SITEURL$/questions/5121/how-do-i-report-a-bug).
... and then either flag as "Bug report" for moderator attention (instant closing) or vote to close (potentially controversial cases). For the moment, we are only addressing the obvious low hanging fruit: the crash and bug tags. For the chat conversation about all this, click here. All janitors welcomed to join; many thanks to Marco!
