Sooo, I believe this is actually a good idea! It'd certainly save a lot of uncautious fellas from following
dangerous links and would require newbies to put a lot more effort into posting just a couple scam/phishing/malware links, as they would first have to reach to Jr. Member.
It's not so sweet for the legitimate newbies, but I'm quite sure a small sacrifice for the better of the community is okay here. If a newbie really wants to post a clickable link, for an ANN, Bounty, Service, or something else, they could simply purchase the Copper Membership...
I really think not all newbies are being like that, We can not judge all newbies because there are fair and honest ones that really want to learn in the forum and not only want to profit because of it, I'd say you can put restriction on it, We had a merit system and I think we can use this if the merit level doesn't meet up to the required level then they can not put links.
Of course, not all newbies are like that and we're not judging all newbies, just because there are some bad ones. We're putting restrictions on a larger group of people, in order to maintain peace in the community.
People without a proper license, here in the Netherlands, are not allowed to own guns. Why are they not allowed to have those? Indeed, for the safety of the rest of the population. And I feel like this case may be hard to compare with "guns", but see it like this: No good person would use a gun to endanger the safety of the rest of the population, just like no good newbie would want to do that. Bad people and bad newbies, however, don't care about that.
Of course, there are countries where owning guns is not illegal, but if you followed recent news, you'd know there's tons of debate about that as well. It's a choice one has to make. There are cons & pros to both sides of the equation.
For me, the decision is clear: We should sacrifice the Newbie's ability to post clickable links for the safety of the community.