I think in order to keep users serious we should make it to where their account here is an investment. We can get rid of the newbie board and assume a user that registers and pays for membership considers this community valuable and will return a similar amount of value in return.
Another side benefit of this is that it would pay for forum hosting easily and possibly with some profit on the side for the project.
Thoughts?
With 1 BTC per post, this forum would be dead.
But with a lower fee (like 0.001 or 0.01 BTC) I like this idea.
Also, I would like to have the option to send up to 50% of the fee to the writer of the post that I'll answer to (defaults to 5%).
(Hm, needs the option to answer a specific post -- like quote).
So it would pay of to write good posts that other people think it's worth to answer.
But I would keep the newbie board and would keep it free to post there. With the option for everyone to hide the newbie-board from their view.