As we probably all agree, Brainstorm is great. It is a direct connection between users and developers to show what the majority of users thinks about the need of features in Ubuntu.
However, Brainstorm is only intended for broader, abstract feature requests and not for little details or bugs.
My suggestion is to add a feature to Launchpad that allows everybody with an account to click on a link or button on a bug report that reads "I am affected by this bug".
Then there could be some "Hall of shame" showing which bugs annoy the most people (maybe multiplied by the severity of the bug).
The rationale behind this is that I believe that users and developers often have different relations to bugs, for example technically more advanced people will adapt to certain bugs or do a quick workaround and forget about it while the average user won't know what to do about it.
A bug "hall of shame" would provide a quick overview which bugs affect the most people and should be fixed to ensure the happiness of the most Ubuntu users.
Developer comments
In Launchpad one can now click "This bug doesn't affect me" in a bug report to indicate that they are affected by a particular bug.
