I see why user-opened bugs could benefit from this policy, but developers opened bugs should probably not. Of all the BiDi related bugs, I think 1235 is the only place where a bug MAY have disappeared "by itself".
Well, when I proposed this solution, I considered this case and had a special Bugzilla state (which could only be used by some 'registered' users) which would let the bug bypass these checks.
Or, even more easy, as soon as a bug is assigned to a known list of users, it would not need this prodding (as, well, we would suppose that Wine developpers would actually care about their assigned bugs :-) ).
Lionel