Maybe I missed the information, but would you please explain the Mr. Magic Threshold that separates the various classes in our little capitalistic cue society?
I understand what you are doing with this plan, but with all due respect, I honestly don't like it. I have been in this community for much longer than most of the fishes around, and one thing that has made it work all these years is the freedom and equality of all members in our community. We don't need a caste system here.
As with all things, this change is most likely based on a profitability analysis. I hate to see this, but I understand. The whole world has the same illness. Everyone wants to get rich, grow bigger, consume more, rank higher, best the others. Why not milk it here too.
Hopefully, a worker ant silver-level minion like myself can still voice an opinion of dissent, or shall my home be covertly surrounded by Super-Gold Cue Dealers, friends of pro-pool players, and other highly-valued billiard corporate members to extinguish this nascent uprising of the worthless masses? Rise my fellow silver skins! Rise my bronze-bellied, t-shirt wearing, bicep tattooed, low-credit hustlers! Your participation is no longer valued at the same level as the Elite! You can look into the pool club boys, just don't touch the $%^& water.
Okay, sorry ... you guys aren't like gonna' demote me for this are you? Cause I can like delete this post if it makes you angry and stuff. And if you Masters of Webdom will make me Gold man, I'll even say I like everyone and that this whole Olympic strata thing is a super-doper idea.
Yeah, that's the ticket Mayberry.
You definitely seem to have some issues. Why don't you try donating some money to this site that you like so much?