I dunno, I find a gaudy amount of membermarks
to be a nifty little contrarian indicator, especially when coupled with a short membership time span. Same with the yellow stars, although I rarely play 'popular' pinks and OTC any more. When I visit a board with 8 yellow stars like I did the other day, it's pretty certain the potential for any kind of a play there is toast, at least for me.
I remember more than a decade ago when Raging Bull went through this debate and ended up doing away with the membermark system, look how well that worked out for them.
Do we really need any more rules?