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Propose rewarding bug validation activity by contributors

Caroline Simpson requested to merge master-patch-5961 into master

Why is this change being made?

This MR is proposing adding additional details and encouragement for contributions that validate issues from our backlog. We have many older issues, and in some cases these issues are no longer relevant. The issues may be .... . Having a large backlog can make it more difficult to ensure we are focusing on fixing the right issues. Needing to manually verify these issues can take a not insignificant amount of time for engineers and other team members. Community members can provide a valuable contribution without necessarily needing to be a developer in helping us re-validate and triage our backlog.

Inspiration: !128261 (comment 1515909868)

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