Really, a few people have caused me to open my eyes and rethink the whole forums thing. It's not necessary to have those when there's awesome sites like this one who could easily fill the niche--and do a better job than we can.
Only reason those forums exist is for staff planning, etc. in a private staff forum. I will talk to some of the other staff when they wake up. I care about this site a lot, and I think it has a lot of potential and is already living a lot of its potential, so I'm going to see if we can cool it down on our forums and work out a deal with Rufus (once we're closer to release). I've asked him to remove the links from this thread.