Where is everybody?

Number of comments over the past week:  

Media - 13

News & Features - 7 

Qing Wen - 15 

Intermediate (Monopoly) - 23 

Elementary (April Fools Day) - 27 

Advanced - 4 

Upper Intermediate - 17  

Questions: Where is everybody? (Surely not studying?)  What proportion of the comments on Lesson threads are people seeking language partners?  

But that raises another question - if the high % of 'spam' is affecting the discourse, should ChinesePod design a space just for messages seeking language partners?