closing older bug reports without looking = bad practice ?

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> Over the following few days, _dozens_ of bugs then get closed by the
> reporters (sadly there's a bunch that report "yup, is fixed",  but
> still leave me to go close the bug for them).

Closed for the reporter doesn't necessarily mean closed for everybody
who has been folowing the bug (withor without posting to it), or
closed to the satisfaction of the maintainer - who may have been made
aware of more gotchas than the reporter.