if David can't implement all the suggestions then perhaps he should consider getting another admin to help.
if the mods can't clear up spam fast enough then perhaps we need more mods.
if people arn't answering questions then perhaps we should look for ways to try to get people into and involved in the help sections of the forum rather than just the social lounge, (a great way of doing this would be making social lounge posts not count towards post count).
personally, I feel once we've sorted out the problems with the forum dynamics, then we should be sorting out the eye candy like avatars and ranks.
1-If he can get someone that he can trust and knows about Vb, and could be active here as well, I wouldn't mind.
2-I'd be willing to help you guys out, but it's just for spam removal, thread closing and language filtering.
3-Nah, removing Social lounge post count doesn't help. We need to REMOVE it.
4-Eye candy would be great after, but not too eye-candy either.