Alrighty, the emails have gone out and come back, and thanks to your kind response here I've come up with some plans.
Associate Editor: Saint Ehlers has kindly offered to help post articles. Think of this me finally giving the head of TWG East the authority he already deserves. We're going to work out some kind of schedul as to who posts when and who does what. I'll contact Tage, or someone else will contact him first, and he'll give SE full admin access to the site.
Forum Overlord: I agree with the common consensus that JamPaladin would make an active and impartial overlord. His job will be to identify forum blow-ups before they happen (when possible) and just generally put out fires. Once again, we'll tell Tage to give him full admin access to the forum. (This should help resolve the Rants section problem, but Jam and I will discuss the need for a dedicated Rants mod.)
Other plans:
1) I want to revamp our department heads and get them back into gear. If we can put each department head in charge of making sure his or her department has a steady stream of articles, the upper site management that SE and I do will go much more smoothly.
2) I've often thought about getting an editorial staff, and I think this might be the time to do it. I will be contacting a couple of people by email to talk about this.
3) We have a lot of interest and talent among our regulars that's currently going to waste. I'd like to harness some of that in what I'm going to call the Special Events department, and I'll be contacting a couple of people about this as well.
4) If you're interested in doing anything specific for the site, or if you just want to help but don't know where you're needed, this thread is a great place to do it.
5) Overall, I think I'm going to be slipping into more of a managerial than editorial role. When we have things delegated and coordinated, we'll be able to a lot more with this site than we could when I was stupidly trying to do everything myself.
Thanks for all your help, and keep it coming.
