Well, some well thought out points there. But I dont think MS should categorize writers into gold, silver or whatever. Let the readers decide what they want to read without being influenced by all these categorization. Just like the Start Writer system is also very inconsistent, any new attempt to categorize writers could be an unnecessary influence. It also opens a pandora’s box on how the categorzation should occur etc.
Anyways, nice thoughts.
Cheers,
Kiran