AFP548.com – some critique

Hi all, I've been a loyal fan of this site for quite a while. OS X sysadmins are a minority in a minority and every active community around it is worth it's weight in gold (I dunno what that means on the WWW, but never-mind...) With all due respect, there are a couple of things that trouble me deeply: 1) How long does it take to get an article published here? It seems more than several weeks. Why? Is there some rigorous revision process involved that I don't know of? Shouldn't that be the community's job? Isn't one of the great advantages of the online medium it's immediacy - you get an idea, write it down, check your facts (make sure everything works), publish it and then learn from others' comments, while you start working on the next thing. You shouldn't have to wait for weeks for someone to approve something. Sorry if I sound angry but I think I have two articles somewhere in a backlog now. It's kind of understandable with macosxhints.com, with about 6 hints being published every day and 1 person going through them and actually adding comments, but here? If you ask me, with this level of specialization, all articles should just be posted right away, with of-course the obvious measures taken to prevent random spamming. 2) Why is there a 293 x 257px "hole" in the place where an article editor should be? This isn't 1998 anymore. May I suggest replacing it with TinyMCE (for example) that's actually used (in WordPress for example) and usable. You shouldn't make generating content painful on a site that lives on user generated content! 3) Why is there spam all over the forums? I know this isn't the mod's "fault", but it leaves a very poor impression of a forum. Considering there's many easy ways to protect yourself from it, *including* manual labor. If the moderators/admins are overwhelmed with duties, please, hire more people! I'm pretty sure there's quite a few people out there (myself included) who'd love to help out. You don't have to pay them - a simple Thank You can go a long way for an opportunity to work on a high profile site like this. 4) Why is there still no IRC channel dedicated to OS X Server? It takes like 2 minutes to set one up. Here. I realize this isn't your "duty" per se, but still. These are not hard problems. Most of them could be fixed in less than a day.