Do the writers of toucharcade visit their own forum and comment in the iPhone games section to spark the interest of the rest of us to play certain games?
Some of us do. Hilariously, we're usually all too busy playing games and writing about them to come and discuss them, though. Especially since we're often playing *next* week's games and can't talk about them until they come out, at which point we're already onto the following week's games.
Don't think any of them have ever even heard of the forums, and I'll stake my Nintendo shares that we'll never see the likes of them here. Never.
Are you blindfolded or just bad at motivating? You even have one of the writer comment in this thread. Seen writers in the forums on several occasions. Heck even just clicking on Shaun's info shows several occasions, like: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?p=3870820#post3870820 You can just mail the shares, when you are done searching.