Well said.
But Freeloaders will be freeloaders and they are legion.
And humans being what they are will take the easy way out, which is asking about something they cannot easily see. So each page turn will act as a total memory wipe for any but the most devoted followers.
When they see a developer they simply see a source that can help, so questions will multiply infinite from there.
The trick, imo, is not whether one can answer everything whether moronic or brilliant, nor despair of the endless of it all, but to realize that while endless and mostly moronic, that beneath it all, the, hmm, lets call it culture of the thread veers towards controlled and self policing etc. rather than the free-for-all bottom feeding that is the fate of so many others.
The forum is a showroom of sorts, it covers an angle patron as a firm does appalingly bad and which "forces" creators to do a lot of outside of patreon advertising and work. It sources potential patreons in a way.
But while important, once a game is known and followed, the forums on the net will enter auto-mode and talk about the game, creator participation or not.
And as the size grows the creator will in any case have to let some of the forum hands-on go, the crowd simply overwhelms (give them a hand, they'll grab an arm principle).
We are not large yet, but we are getting there, the pages have begun to run fast, though it as always only translates to more patreons with a lag and over time.
hmm.
Darkhound has his own style and has so far shown sound judgement.
I am sure that he will engage and cut off as needed.
Hoping for the crowd to realize is unachievable.