With regards to #3... the leaderboard rankings system is BADLY broken. A few major issues:
* It doesn't filter out OutSystems employees, who obviously have more incentive to participate and have been around much longer. Only 2 people on the Top 10 list do not work for OutSystems (myself and Robert Champhakeo).
* It puts a very high premium on Forge components, most of which are made by one of a few OutSystems employees.
* All of the really important/needed Forge components have already been made (ardoCrypto, SilkUI/themes, SortRecordList, Geo) or have been mostly replaced by built-in functionality (ardoJSON, various service-specific integrations for REST services like Mailchimp, Twillio, etc.). It is VERY difficult to imagine a member of the community being able to create a component in their spare time and post it that will get them enough points to rise in the rankings... especially since at this point you need 5 - 10 smash hit components to get on the top 10 list. I am on a LOT of popular components, and my component isn't nearly high enough to put me on the top 10 list by itself, and after 6+ years my forum score isn't high enough to keep me on the top 10 list either. I am slowly falling off the top 10 list.
* Just like Components, almost all of the really important Ideas have already been posted. Virtually always, whenever you see a new Idea get a lot of "likes" it is a duplicate of an old Idea.
* The "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" on forum posts is worth a lot of points, but very rarely gets used. I suspect most people don't even know it is there because the buttons are small and out of the way.
It took only a few months (weeks?) for the "OutSystems Labs" account to make the top 10 list, simply because SilkUI, the themes, and common components get posted by that account. But there are a lot of people who post many times a day, and answer a LOT of questions, who will probably never be on the top 10 list just because they don't post a lot of Forge components.
J.Ja