Why are there so few questions in this section these days?

There have been some strange things going on in the older questions, I noticed last week while putting in some votes, there were many questions over week old that were still marked as 'tiebreaker' but they had clear winners I thought this strange and booked marked them and went back several days latter and they were still there. They just were not being closed correctly this seemed to be some sort of fault in the answers system and goes with several other comments I've seen lately about questions not appearing after they were asked and links not appearing in asked questions. I don't think the answerers people put that much effort into maintenance of this site.