Yeah, that does seem a bit hard to tackle with playing that amount for each hack, especially during the holiday season. And reading your post now, I like the way you criticized and scored the three hacks actually. People will probably complain because the scores are low but they're balanced out with each of them. I don't blame you if you didn't judge again though, takes a lot of time out of you.
I also don't blame you with IRC either. I have a bouncer there but I only pop in to check every once in a while. :/