if any help is needed i'd be more then happy to help the community...
As for more authors... thats up to them if they want to learn and try...
As for a rating system i dunno... there's a crucial factor of everyone's 'first' hack... i've seen many that are not to be mean but not necessarily hacks... like my own if you care to check out out... yeah i know pretty sad

but anyways first feedback from the community wasn't that great

so i disappeared for a couple of months and returned more confident... as you can see i have made some improvement... but a 'hack ratings system' is like a 'bash new hackers' type deal... thats just my opinion...
As for and idea... perhaps if its someone's first hack there can be some kind of noticication (prefix?) so that members know its their first (second and third as well maybe?) so that they feel more comfortable and hackers will be easier....
Another idea... similiar to a new feature 'vb3 similiar threads' have a vb similiar hacks that would appear before confirming a hack release... this would maybe stop releases from being released in the past...
I don't know what else... just some input and my opinions... regards...
g-force2k2