Hi Jamus,
I've been lloking for an earlier reply to this particular question, but I couldn't find it...
The staff, i.e. the people who's names show up in colours, are here to help people with the Game proper. This means all of us have a fair understanding of the game, how it works and how to solve problems.
So how does it work?
Well, first of all, most of us started out as regular members and got invited because several angels thought the things we did for the game were an asset to the site(s).
Cherubs are active mainly on the forum, giving advise on playing the game. They also welcome new people and can do things as find news items, write reviews of scenarios and a few other things.
Angels, which include Seraphs and Halos are the people that do the actual making of the site, addign and maintaining content.
Seraphs are the webmasters, so each site has it's own webmaster, a duty Reckless Rodent and I share for C3H and PH.
Halos are the ones that make the bigger decisions, like "which games are we going to support?"
Note: Post count has absolutely nothing to do with who are staff and who are not.
My personal, favourite example of this is Angel Alexander I, Angel, Seraph over on HGS Main, Halo and generally great guy
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