Hmm, well, there would have to be a user group for each forum I think, so there would have to be a designated 'Leader' up each user group. For example, there could be a 'Chaos Daemons Veterens' group, the 'Painting Veterans' group, and so forth.
That would work really well, except for a few things:
1) If the Leader left the forum, for whatever reason, a new one would have to designated, and I'm sure how that works.....can the 'invite only' priviledges be transfered to someone else?
2) This will make it Sig based. I dont mind where the Badge is, but in the sig, it can be Copy/Pasted, and the Sigs these days dont allow for a whole lot of room. Something like 150 characters, and 2kb? If many people here where to edit their sig (like i did by accident), it would reduce whatever they have down to the new limitations (im fairly sure they're recent..). Phoenix is a good example. He coldcn't have his current sig...tipping that aint 2kb!
3) Lots of work for the leaders, and lots of different Leaders putting in different amounts of work will casue this to become inconsistant between different areas.
Hmmm...shame I dont know how all this jazz works...hence my continuous calling to Blackhat
Tim