I know that encouraging others to post on the forum is a good idea and a movement I can get behind. However a few points on your list I have something to pitch in with.



Contributing and participating in discussion will probably not have any more impact than just reading. Sure you might learn a few things if you come up with unique questions and problems however that is a rarity these days because most of things relating to Bitcoin has already been discussed unless you are going to get technical. Something which a newbie will probably not be able to do.



This is something that I partly agree with. Yes participating in discussions will actually make you start to get a name for yourself. Although that doesn't mean its necessarily going to be a good reputation if you're not presenting facts and spamming then you are doing the opposite. Posting for the sake of increasing reputation will not work as you need to think through your replies and actually bring something new to the discussion for this to increase your reputation. Lets also make it clear that reputation is different to trust here. You can have a reputation for being knowledgeable but may not be trustworthy.



I doubt that participating in quality discussions has any bearing on bans. If you are breaking the rules one way or another I doubt that your contributions to a discussion will be considered. What will be considered is your history on breaking rules and what rules you have broken. I don't think its a good idea to tell people that participating in quality discussion is going to make them immune or give them less of a chance of being banned. There's no favoritism here and a lot of quality members have been banned for double posting and other things.