No, the staff rank has always been granted to the few, very devoted staff members. We have a separate group of people who work on guides, but currently we're in reconstruction.
We actually did have over 100 people in the 'staff', but the staff rank itself was not given too often, because 1. the people disliked having a too high ranked/regular user ratio, and because 2. we just didn't have that many devoted members. Things might change in future though.
If you're interested in helping out we'd gladly accept new members to these teams
however, like I said we're currently under reformation, so it would have to wait.