attributes private, package, etc appear to be ignored

[Frank Benoit]

>> What can be done about this sort of thing?
> 
> IMO only the responsible party (Walter, for DMD) or the submitter should
> alter a ticket's status.  I appreciate the effort of others try and keep
> things all neat and tidy, but I'm not sure things have gotten to the
> point where this sort of help is truly necessary.  If you suspect a
> ticket is a duplicate, perhaps it would be more appropriate to post
> something to the effect here and let the submitter decide?
> 
> 
> Sean

I don't see a problem here.

If someone marks a bug as duplicate, the bug do not silently disappear.
Everybody can reopen the bug status at any time. And if there is really
a argue about it, there is also the possibility of an poll in bugzilla.

This is like a wiki. It lives from the community contributing to it. Any
restriction is worse than it help. Animate the people to contribute,
don't put restrictions on the system. Failures happens, only if no one
is contributing any more, then no errors will happen. :)