Quote from: LeGaulois on January 31, 2018, 10:39:41 PM

It's something I suggested some time ago last year... The forum could introduce different memberships to the users, similar to "Cooper"
Most of the large forums have 1 or more memberships (especially in IM/SEO forums for example, yeah I know IM is not BTC)

- One to allow all the ICOs/Altcoins to get listed in the forum, just a one time fee. If they don't have enough money to buy a membership in a forum then just LOL

With doing quick verification to check the project it would be better than nothing..
Off topic but a membership for the average users:

- Another one for the members who want to get access to a private section, remove the captcha or any other advantages you can think about

- Or this one that ChipMixer suggested some weeks back

Quote from: ChipMixer on December 09, 2017, 01:31:13 PM

Is there an official .onion proxy of BitcoinTalk that bypass Cloudflare? We do sometimes get support request PMs.

How about BitcoinTalk Pro accounts with monthly payments, private proxy without Cloudflare and captchas, bot access?

I don't think introducing a rank would prevent them though. As Hilariousandco said they rake in millions and wouldn't care about paying a small one time fee in to enable them to post their announcements. A service which offered certification would be the best route, though this would need to be run by a person who is considered extremely trustworthy and should probably be double checked by a independent member too as it would likely be susceptible to back handers.

Quote from: hilariousetc on January 31, 2018, 04:30:45 PM

Theymos thought about some sort of ICO accreditation service previously: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2070397.msg20678014#msg20678014

I think they should all be banned from listing threads here or at the very least forced to pay some sort of fee to make their announcements as they cause probably 95% of spam and workload here and staff are left to clean up their mess whilst they don't follow the rules and rake in millions in the process.

I feel banning them completely wouldn't be the ideal solution, but as I said above I don't think a rank would do much other than preventing the people who don't want to invest anything which you'll see a couple from time to time using free domains etc.

The amount of money they receive through presales and 'donations' is insane and they would very likely be willing to pay a one time fee to be able to post. It could be a requirement anyway, just to cut a little percentage of the users who aren't willing to invest a little into their project.