[dmz73]

There are two instances I can think of (I've done it myself) where the bug is important but user does not come back to check on the report after 1 or 2 weeks: 1) Trying out different environment and finding things that do not work. Report a bug with reproducible example and don't check it for a while (months or years) since there is important work to be done in working environment. 2) Find a bug and then find the workaround since work can't wait for external fixes. Report a bug with reproducible example, check the status for a few days with no responses and then ignore the bug since there is important work to be done and workaround has been applied. Now you know one of the reasons why "legacy" code might look messy - it has workarounds for the bugs that may have been fixed...but who has the time to go back and check, change, and test the "fixed" code which may introduce other bugs.