wluke, please explain the information design of this Hacks forum

[theflow]

I have been wondering this for weeks:

I see at top 3 subforums:

Requests
Releases: Version 2.x
Releases: Version 1.1.x

Below that is a forum whose purpose is confusing:

In sticky thread #1, you state:
Important: vBulletin Hacking Rules
2. Place all Hack Requests in the "Requests" forum. This will make it easy for hack writers to see what you want.

Then there are 6 pages worth of threads in this same forum, many of which contain Requests for hacks, many of which contain released hacks. For weeks I was playing by your own Rules and posting my Requests in the Requests forum, not in this forum. Little to no attention. Then two days ago, after I posted to "How Do I...?" forum asking for help in accomplishing some functionality, that thread got moved (appropriately so) to this forum, not to the "Requests" subforum. I'm not complaining because within 12 hours, one of my other requests that had been sitting unattended to in "Requests" forum for several weeks got picked up by Firefly who then executed the hack and published his results in "Released Hacks". That was great!

So my question is, why bother having a Requests subforum if more attention is gotten from posting hack requests here?

I'm asking so I know where I should place future requests to work within the system

Thanks,
Richard