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That's actually quite an interesting take on this issue. You're saying (I think) that instead of making this proposal a forum-wide change, there should be a way for people to set up "post filters" themselves?
Just thinking out loud here, but being able to specify a (carefully sanitized) expression (maybe PHP, maybe something custom) to define per-board post filters would be a pretty cool feature!
OP could then go into his "Post Filtering" settings and under "Marketplace -> Lending" could enter an expression like:
exclude($memberRank < 2) (where 0 == "Brand New", 1 == "Newbie", 2 == "Jr. Member", etc).
I'd probably use an expression like:
exclude($memberPostCount > 50 && $memberEarnedMerits / $memberPostCount < 0.5) to clean up my view of certain boards.
I also like that this feature is in keeping with the forum's mission to maximize freedom: people would retain the ability to post (mostly) wherever they want without too many restrictions, but would also
gain the ability to control their experience and (attempt to) make their time spent reading the forum more pleasant.
Yeah I guess that could save a lot of people from seeing shit they don't want to see, just like a general ignore button but these has to deal with general specification on the particular rank of account or post from those certain ranks you don't want to see. I donno if am getting the whole set up correct and please put me in line if am out but if I am, I would say its a nice idea but there are some little disadvantage to it but its normal as in good work advantage and disadvantage must be there. And the only disadvantage for now which I feel it might possibly have is the going to be the rate of growth of newbie account delayed because when this option is implemented most reputable newbie accounts that will have grown fast here in creating good works will also suffer from this new setting as the restriction will probably affect every account on the particular rank been restricted