New rank idea: Bounty Member

I was reading marlboroza's topic "Theymos help us fight against scam ICO's" and I remembered a post by theymos:

Quote from: theymos on May 14, 2018, 01:16:46 AM

What do the people who operate these bounties think of the newbie invasion? Also, people should not be required to post in order to get paid; that's already against the rules.

An idea I had in this vein was that upon registration you'd have to pick one of two paths:
- "I want to discuss things"
   = Banned from all money-making/spam-hotbed sections until Jr Member
- "I want to make money"
   = Banned from the more serious sections until Jr Member
   = You have to pass a quiz before posting which tries to inform you about basic forum rules, how not to get banned, maybe some basic English knowledge, etc. (Quizzes are pointless to stop dedicated spammers, since an answer key will quickly be compiled, but it may help in cases where clueless people are ending up here.)

Not only newbies and Jr Members are causing problems, as time passes and merit flows to every corner of the forum there will be a lot of other ranks with pure spammers, not taking into account older accounts and hacked ones.

So, my idea is to introduce a new rank: Bounty Member.

A rank that you can get by simply checking an option in your profile, but once you do that you're locked as a Bounty Member for at least 14-30(?) days.

Now what does this rank do, or actually what can't you do without being a bounty member:
- Only bounty members can post in the bounty section (normal members can still start a topic, for obvious reason as campaign managers)

But, once you've gone the path of a bounty hunter, expect a cruel fate:
- once you try to enroll, you're going to get 3-5 questions, just like theymos suggested, you don't pass them, your bounty hunter application is thrown in the garbage bin and you can't apply for the next 30 days.
- those questions will hunt you all the time as each activity period you're going to have to answer another set.
- a large part of the forum will be closed for you, you're going to have to say goodbye to some areas and live in the wilderness of the altcoin section and local(?).
- goodbye post bursting, you're going to have to wait like a predator for a 360-600(?, again open to debate) delay between your posts, no matter what your rank is.
- there is no merit in bounty (self-explanatory) Cool

Others can be added or some subtracted, and of course, the whole idea can be trashed away Grin