And this helps us how?

So that people searching the Bug Reports forum can know whether or not the Empeg Guys have officially been notified of the issue. For instance, someone else might discover the same bug later and try to re-report it if they didn't think anyone was paying attention.

Also, the release notes for a given release list the bug numbers, so a quick "Edit/Find" on the release notes will confirm whether that bug was fixed in that release.