Reasons for them not doing that :
They cant reproduce it .. But they usually say if thats the case.
They havent got round to investigating it. They wont do anything with the topic for the time being.
Or they just make a post in your topic instead of tagging the title.
Rarely, if its shortly after a beta release and there are hundreds of bug reports, your report might be on the third/fourth page of the forum by then and they may have missed it .. At which point everyone starts trying to make a bump post to keep their own topic front page, which is against the rules many people dont read.
Its better to actually have no replies to your topic opening post, if a topic has 0 replies the devs are more likely to notice that and look into it no matter how far back it is.
It also depends on the relevant Dev for the subject matter noticing the problem, so wording the title appropriately is important to get the relevant Devs attention, although one will pass on something they notice to a relevant Dev.
But as has been mentioned a few times on this forum, they all do read everything posted. I think I have seen one admittance from a Dev that they missed a post completely, but thats only once since I joined this forum in 2006 just after I got into X2 The Threat.
Patience is a requirement here, and not the attention span of a goldfish
