Corporate Troll's Journal: But it's not a Bug! In your dreams!

This Frank guy on Facebook is driving me nuts: Battle of the Bands bug I reported.. He's actually trying to convince me that the behaviour, which is inconsistent with user expectation and internally inconsistent is not a bug... It's not wrong because the developers made it that way!

Yeah, right: that's going to fly when I need to defend a bug next time at work!

So, what do you think? Bug or not bug?

And you're Corporte Troll?

[Daengbo]

My opinion? YHBT.

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[Corporate Troll]

There are trolls on Facebook? Never occurred to me, but in that case, I fear you're right. However, on sites like Facebook it's hard to keep the idiots and the trolls apart ;-))

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[Daengbo]

My reasoning is that no one can really be that stupid. I could be wrong, though. Is is Facebook.

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[Corporate Troll]

I have said this before: Compared to most sites, slashdot is a haven of reason and intelligence and you know how bad the situation is here.

Yes and no.

[turg]

I would say it's a design flaw, not a bug. But that doesn't mean it's less in need of correction.

Recently the word bug has been used to mean any problem with a piece of software. It used to mean what Frank says, the program behaving differently than intended, e.g. because of a typo in the code. In this case the code is working as intended, but the result is still a problem.

Frank seems to be conflating a few different things. e.g. He's using the old-fashioned definition of bug (one of many possible types of

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[Corporate Troll]

I would say it's a design flaw, not a bug.

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In this case the code is working as intended

With all due respect... I disagree. I am, however, very interested why you think the code is working as intended. Any evidence for that?

It is indeed a design flaw if it is intended to work that way, but I don't see evidence for that.