"You're paranoid because you're guessing that I've taken some sort of offense? "

No, you've taken offense because you're paranoid.

Regarding The Rules, you're confusing my appreciation for visually coherent grids with the belief that I would like to impose some sort of "style" on the grid. First of all I have no idea where you got the concept that I want to edit or arbitrate anyone else's contributions to this thing we call the gridcosm. *That* seems to me a bit paranoid. I've been doing this thing since it started, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone else who thinks that's my game here.

Also regarding The Rules. I don't know if you were around when Ian was contributing(http://id.sito.org/ian/)to the grid. He was a frequent contributor for many levels and then just stopped one day (...gridcosm?level=307)

I asked him why later, and he simply said he wasn't a big fan of "rules". It's always confused me, I think the notion of the rebel artist disregarding the rules is as valid as any, but the truth is: you've got a 150x150 square to do whatever the hell you want. However, the point of this thing is to collaborate with others and feed off the energy of other people's ideas. Hence it really is TCA's FREE ZONE and JER's FREE ZONE, SNY's FREE ZONE, etc.