I don't really think this is about disrespect of authority, which I do not really care for. I want people to respect the community as a whole.
tocky, so far, since you came back from your 4 year or so hiatus, you have mainly written stuff which relates to pixelart at best tangentially and what you have written is very convoluted. I can empathise where you are coming from. I have dealt with mental issues in the past, I have had depression (still have to some degree) and I had a manic episode in my late teens. What I know from that time is that I thought I had some deep insight and everything made sense and I could connect everything to everything else with ease. But looking at it with hindsight I see that was just because I was manic. It messes up with your ability to self assess.
Everything you write seems to suggest that your way is the only right way and everyone else should listen to you. You so far did not demonstrate in which way the stuff you are writing is helpful in the least. To the community, to pixel art, to whatever.
I am all for using the Socratic method to ask questions and get some dialogue going, but I have to have at least the feeling that the party I am talking to will consider things I am saying. So far you do not come across like that.
I am totally up for people giving constructive feedback about what we could improve about Pixelation (for example in the future of pixelation thread). And if there are people that are willing to help implement these things, then that is cool as well.
I am sure there are things that could be improved. Crow is working on some custom forum software which will make things a lot more streamline in terms of features that we need or don't need. But that will take some time. All this stuff takes time, esp. when people are also studying or have to make a living.
Also, Alex: You did not just "speak your mind". You thought some terminology people used was silly (hueshifting) and then went on to rant about greyshifting (where value-shifting would probably have been a better term) in other people's unrelated threads. That is why you got banned, not because you simply spoke your mind. I am glad that you are back now and I have seen you give good critiques to people and be a helpful member of the community and I highly appreciate that. But lets be honest about our shortcomings here.
You can tell me what you think my shortcomings are, or the shortcomings of the forum in general. As long as things are kept constructive and polite.
Back to tocky:
I am OK with some chaos being inserted into the mix here. But there is a certain baseline we have established. There is a very good reason why we do not have a general chit chat type subforum on here. In general all forums that have this (pretty much all I know apart from pix) will have more drama because people will talk about stupid shit and get on each others nerves, as well as inviting people who are not at all interested in what the forum is about, such as games, pixelart, what have you, and are just being asshats. Which is more or less what killed Eatpoo back in the day. There was too much chaos, established professional artists who gave great critique left because the forum became too childish and was run by non-artist friends of the owner of the board. Let's avoid things like that. Hence no blah blah forums.
You are totally free to come up with some activities that people can partake in and post them in the activity subforum. As long as they have to do with pixel-art.
You can not seriously expect to come to some place, proclaim you are some kind of master-mind, almost messianic figure, and then only write stuff that is hard to make sense of. People will look at it and think "this is nonsense" and disengage. I don't think you can fault anyone for that. Though I am sure instead you could think that we are all just too dumb to get it.
About your suggestion for mods: Both ilkke and arachne have been asked before if they want to be mods by me personally. They do not have the time and/or energy to do this. If they wanted to, they could be mods.