Good ideas, all of these I have tried but it seems like I may have made them too big and scared off the casual artists so your ideas seem quite refreshing and fun and I love the idea of an icon wall, If I look around and find out a little bit more about it, I may in fact start one up.
The token idea is also nice. I intended to make tokens for the sake of the contests I tried to boot up a few months back without success so they would work very well, i think. A little thing to get people active.

I thought of the tutorial idea a while back just like your suggestion, a revival of the resources thread could be done too. I was going to start up a section wide tutorial/school system where tutorials that people make can be archived and also people could sign up to 'teach' through PM a certain aspect art and spriting to people. I started one in the spriting section and it wasn't successful and didn't gain much interest. [http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/for...riting-School]

It seems like Speed-X has taken over that in terms of a proposed revival of it, but a similar system could be made for the main section for Art/Graphic Art/Editing? It would need a few changes though.

I like the ideas. :)