I'll address some of the issues raised in the replies first.
@Eeprom and Libra, I agree that forums are primarily meant to be for discussion and our recent restructuring of the forums was partly designed to tackle the problem of copy-paste type topics. The idea now is that threads such as stories, life lessons, quotes etc can be posted in or moved to Creative Work, and this way they won't get in the way of real discussion in General Area. Don't get me wrong, some of these stories are wonderful but the point is they don't encourage conversation, only appreciative acknowledgements. In practice, we've still been a little slow to react in some cases and thus a few of these topics have remained longer than they should in that forum so this is an area we can improve on.
@Eeprom, out of 21 staff 15 were active today and most of the remainder were active in the last 3 days. I am proud of the quality of our administrators, they earned that position and don't need to work their socks off to prove themselves further, as long as they are here most days to contribute.