Your input is valued. Even if you are relatively new anyone here with more than a handful of neurons can see that you are dedicated to the forum and have respectfully adapted to our rules and culture, so do not be afraid to speak up.
Proctor worries about our public perception, and I cannot say I blame him for that. It's very hard to extract info from the people who have it when you are known as the leader of a band of storybook bad guys. I do not think he will ever acquiesce to stupid notions of public propriety though, Proctor is nothing if not ardently opposed to outside/authoritarian control and following "Da rules", he's only trying to keep our image clean to make it easier to do one of our core labors (and that so he can groom 2-views only to make them recoil in disgust when he spergs out in their chat).
I trust reinigen and thhrang to keep the Discord in its proper place and be the canaries in the coal mine should it ever start going in the wrong direction. For now it serves as a good facade to entice potential sources of info since it is a lot less intimidating to internet casuals and young people than the forum itself.