Hi,
17 seems reasonable to me in terms of a response from my experience, especially given its holiday season.
It feels like theres a hardcore of between 30 - 50 regular posters on the forum ay any moment in time. Its a free world and everybody has time constraints, commitments and priorities, so for me it works ok. The hardest bit is getting volunteers to run the competitions, the lyric of the month has ceased again.
One thought I had was could we make it easier to actually vote. I think Jambrians is a clever and understands focus and stuff and found a way once to be able to vote without having to pm, that might make the admin overhead easier?
neil