My experience with open source projects is that bug reports are only taken seriously from people who are involved in the project. That means either you have contributed code, or you are a serious user who has spent time introducing yourself in the 'real' forum the developers use (typically freenode/IRC back in the day). Otherwise, the signal/noise ratio is just way too low for it to be useful to read through all the reports, particularly if the project is to any degree high profile.

The assumption is that a 'real' bug will eventually be reported by a 'serious' user or developer. Maybe that's wrong but that is how it works in the real world.