Many of these requests can be figured out on your own. Don't be afraid to get yourself dirty... isn't that why you are cheating on Neopets in the first place? Or do you expect to have everyone else do the work for you? Even so, you may come across situations that you don't know how to handle so in a sense, you can always be screwed.
Although using information people provide can be helpful at times, it helps much more to get into the game and do some dirty work yourself instead of relying on others.
And to the first part of this topic... hack or be hacked.