Awful? *sigh* I can tell I'm going to have to explain this quite a lot.
The Scrapbox was originally to be used for developing ideas, sort of a brainstorm place but its become polluted with hacks that are in an awkward transition stage to the Showcase.
The Showcase was designed to showcase hacks that people can actually play through, hacks that are promising and ones where the authors have proven their dedication to their hacks by the amount of progress they've made. Now a hack only needs 4 screenshots to get in.
With the changes that are in place now, the Scrapbox will be able to serve its actual purpose and hacks that only have ideas will not be drowned out by hacks that have alphas/betas and it'll encourage hackers to take their time developing ideas because they won't feel the pressure of coming up with a beta to get noticed.