For a lot of fangs, unless its a bad enough publicly facing bug that it gets notable coverage, it's easier to get hired to the team to fix it yourself than it is to successfully complete all of the following:

  a) get a human to look at your externally submitted bug report unless you just get lucky with one of their team seeing your reddit post
  b) get that bug accepted by the team as a bug
  c) get the bug prioritized to the point that it isn't "bankrupted" to make the team's stats look better at the end of the quarter
  d) actually fixed