[JamesUS]

Wayne is away for a couple of days so I will do my best to answer this one, though I haven't been mod of this forum for very long.

The intent was always to keep this main forum free for discussion relating to hacks, perhaps tossing around ideas for the way a particular hack should (or should not) work, or just getting opinions as to whether a hack is wanted by the visitors.
While we would obviously like everyone to check the Requests forum as well as the main one, it inevitably doesn't quite get as much attention simply because it requires another click to get to.
We always encourage people to post their requests in the right forum, and usually move them across if they are in the wrong place (I guess yours got moved (by Ed) to the main hacks forum because it isn't necessarily a public hack as the others are, but a more private work). Perhaps posting should be disabled in this main forum and instead make anotehr subforum, which should help to ensure all get the attention they deserve but I'm not sure that's the best solution.

I think the dedicated 'hack writers' still visit the Requests forum, which is evident because requests do get dealt with eventually. It's still not as much as we'd like but I think that situation is gradually changing.

Hope that clarified things a little - if not please feel free to post more questions.

James.