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"until you manually go and filter them out"

You mean, until you manage your project...gasp. How horrible!

Some projects can rack up that many request quickly and overwhelming the maintainer but that isn't the norm. Warranted or not this kind of buildup is usually a sign of neglect.

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I don't understand what you are trying to say. Why is a build-up of feature requests a sign of neglect, if bugs are regularly fixed? Do you consider a build-up of unimplemented feature requests to reflect as poorly on a project as a build-up of unfixed bugs?

A build up of un-triage feature requests can be a sign of neglect or of maintainer overload (the later will probably lead to the former eventually), but you can't tell if that is the case just by looking at an issue count.

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