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Hi Rhomal,
This is good (for me at least) as it is helping to paint a picture of what kind of questions are getting overlooked. Of the 8 questions you linked to, only 1 is what I'd consider to be clearly in the realms of what should be getting answered on these forums. Of course you are free to ask any questions you like, but I don't think there should be an expectation of an answer in all the cases you provided. Once you get outside of supporting the XOOPS core, core modules/blocks, and their unaltered functionality I think it starts to become a bit of grey area. For instance the topics of your questions were (in order they were linked);
1) Importing word documents to WF-Section
2) Thumbnail generation problem in XoopsGallery
3) Intranet performance issues with Apache
4) Inaccurate Who's Online Block
5) Installing NewBB2 editors
6) Mass upload of avatars
7) Use of more info block
8) Intergration of 3rd party Moon Phase script
Of these questions number 7 is the only one that clearly meets the criteria of supporting the XOOPS core, core modules/blocks, and their unaltered functionality. Number 4 & 6 are asking questions of the XOOPS core modules/blocks, but to be able to do what you where asking required more than what XOOPS can do without manually modifying it (be that a short coming of XOOPS or otherwise). Questions number 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8 are not your "run of the mill" questions and are all regarding 3rd party modules.
The reason I categorise them like this is I really don't think the XOOPS forums should be the place for expecting any real support for third party modules. This is because the people who are have the familiar enough with these modules to be able to support them to a high level might not even look at the XOOPS forums, and in most cases you'll find that the developers of these modules provide their own support forums. For questions such as you asked in 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8, I'd be posting them with the expectation that I wouldn't get an answer from these forums, not with theexpectation I would.
