Seperating beginners from the rest.

[Omegakyogre]

Just separate "Sprite Discussion" into customs and edits, and keep an archive of the old topics so people can sort them theirselves.

So, you'd click on Sprite Discussion and it'd turn out like this:
-Custom Sprites
-Edited Sprites
-Fangames
-Requests
-Archive

This way, nobody feels inferior, and you couldn't really argue against edits in an edit section. Also, I'm sure people are smart enough to know which section they belong in, like with Sprite Discussion and Submissions right now.

I'm not sure I like that idea at all. With what you're proposing, it'd take an extra click just to get to a forum where you can see sprites - when you visit frequently, that extra click can get really, really annoying. Besides that, the Edited sprites forum would be so filled with crappy edits that it wouldn't be worth the few clicks and mouse-movements to make it in the first place.