Hi @Ryan,
Since you are the admin for this beautiful forum, the suggestion is to make your life easier. I am pretty sure you already know about Stackoverflow. Best & worst friend of a developer. When you create a new topic there, you have to follow a specific template. Maybe we could use something like this in this forum as well. Basically, we could get more information from user before they create the topic.
Creating a default template for a topic would help everyone. For example, a template could ask for specific information from the user such as server, time, operating system, phBot version, uploading bot config etc. This way, we all can skip the step for asking those information from the user. Because some bugs are related with server itself for example. Some of them might be related with operating system or phBot version. Sometimes we might need to see the configuration.