well its true there is the checking problem and also when people develop ideas about future. but this happens anyway I think it works great to lionhead and relic that why i gave them as an example lionhead as well was solved out to a bigger company , and still they run a community pet. and while it may give troubles a bit , its worth while this troubles and will do mostly good.
besides he doesn't have to report everything , like the others he just need to throw of some info from time to time to specific important questions and mostly just talk with the people to keep them happy :D.

and about the official forums , of course it should be there and not in an unofficial fan site, but this site is way better and have more community alive :).