Quote from: xtraelv on October 08, 2018, 05:16:19 AM

Already available. Just pay 20 BTC for VIP membership.

You beat me to it

Yeah, the option is already available but buying a VIP membership is extremely expensive nowadays. The price for it is in fact 50 BTC not 20 BTC.

When the 50 BTC for VIP membership & 10 BTC for Donator status fees were created (on Aug 19th 2011), BTC was about $10. So VIP would cost you $500 and Donator $100.

Check for yourself here:

Quote from: theymos on August 19, 2011, 08:29:22 AM

If you donate 10 BTC (which pays for about a month of hosting), you get donator status:
[...]
If you donate 50 BTC, you get VIP status, which allows you to set a custom title:
[...]

Donations page with more info: https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

Going back to the original question, I'm thinking about how people could abuse this but since the profile is still tied to a user ID and you'll still see the trust rating for the user that just changed it's username, this won't affect anything.