Forums are not bad. Acctually when you have a lot of active user (which is a good thing), they write a lot of dumb questions and the not-so-dumb-questions get lost between it (the not so good thing). But the same happens on nearly ever technology (mailinglist(zend) and even bugtracking(eclipse)). In the end you allways are in charge to find a core dev (or an other smart guy) and send them direct a nice mail.

The vote system might be probably a system to prevent this, but is also not fault prove. Think about this: There is a very cool new feature (like integrate openads in yet an other blog software) and this get a vote from nearly every user. On the other hand somewhere in this magic-not-yet-existing-system a very smart guy write about a very critical security bug. And nobody vote for it because the dumb users didn’t understand what the smart guy mean and your back on the forum problem…

> “Ask us a question about Openads… we’ll make sure to respond.”

lol…