If you consider this a penalty then I believe you entirely misunderstood the purpose of these reports.
It doesn't matter how active you are if nobody knows what you are doing. Activity is excellent, nobody will complain about it. However this activity should serve a more global purpose. If you pay attention to the status reports that have been posted thus far, some people did the bare minimum while others seized this opportunity to make disco a better place. What kind of faction leader do you want to be? This is the real question here.
Admins are slow, that's a fact. It's being worked on and when half the staff goes missing in the span of two weeks things need to be reorganized and it is no small task when reports and requests continue to flow in.
How you fill this report is up to you. Do the bare minimum or do something elaborate, the choice if yours. Know that an elaborate report is more likely to see its content processed faster. The more info you provide and the less we have to find by ourselves, the faster it can be handled.