Sounds funny but true , The forum clearly named after Bitcoin and then suddenly there will be a Token that will circulate inside? this will be against the nature of this forum to be transparent and fair to all coins that's why altcoins are open in here as well, but having a different coin dedicated only for bitcointalk users i believe this is appropriate .
It is not about changing the whole thing about the forum, it is about just making some more money from another place. Bitcointalk also had a donation thing that they collected a lot of money, theymos is one of the richest people in the entire world when it comes to bitcointalk thanks to that, it was bigger than all the advertisements they got, because it was early days and they were getting like 50 bitcoin a pop and they said they would do a huge forum overhaul and get a new software made, then what happened?
The forum is still the same forum. You do not have to change anything about the forum, just make a thing called "merit" and then people could give it to each other like right now, and that would be basically enough. I am not saying it will happen, it may not happen at all but that is the good thing about the bets as well, you wager on something that you may fail.