I had a query here Copper member is for paid accounts right? Even for paid accounts need to get merits?
After buying the Copper membership, you have an option to wear that title or not. It is a title, not a rank, so you will still need to earn merits to rank up.
Once you have it, you get the choice:
Fortunately, being a Copper Member will give your some bonuses (
nearly as same as Member rank), but they might be ended at anytime theymos changes rules. The copper memebership might not last forever. See at:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=credit;promote.
By popular demand, newbies can now pay to have some of their restrictions lifted. If you pay the fee, you become a Copper Member, and you can post images. That's the main point of this: allowing newbies to post images. Additionally (and these might change depending on how things go), Copper Members currently have these bonuses:
- Some of the same permissions as Member-rank members, such as reduced signature styling restrictions. (But none of the PM-related restrictions are currently lifted, such as the style limit or per-hour PM limit.)
- Your "you must wait ____ seconds between ___" counter is reduced by 75%. So if you're naturally of Newbie rank, you only have to wait 360-75% = 90 seconds.
Having rights to post images is good but you should use the rights relevantly does not equal that you should include images in each of your post. Images, if being used irrelevantly, will become annoying.