Yes, the comments section is the place to give those kinds of personal anecdotes. We have many times in the past encouraged comments by offering contests and things like that to spur people to post more.
I've thought a lot lately about ways of getting more conversation going in the database and this very week we're celebrating the ATP database and I have some things I want to try out later this week if I can get my thoughts all organized on what I want to do.
We definitely need more comments posted, though.