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The main problem I see with tying "extras" to member titles is that member titles barely work. Hell, look at this thread. "High" titled users are using that they have high titles to imply that having a title means something. They clearly don't really care about titles, yet use them to troll. Its that kind of widespread mentality that makes the titles unimportant to begin with. Its that sort of behavior that proves that having a title does not really mean you should be, or are actually trusted.
I guess using extras might be a good experiment to see if my inference holds water. Would "high" titled users not use titles to troll because they'd run a risk of losing those potential extras? Or would they use them as more justification to troll with them, as there's some actual value to them now? I don't know, but I'd presume a lot of both would be happening. I'm just saying that I doubt giving something that's devoid of value and is used for negative things would changed if you actually gave it some value.
I do think some things, even some things related to join dates and titles might be useful. Like the you can't make a group without a certain title being associated with your account. Or you can't use certain mark ups until you've been here a certain amount of time. The threshold should be really low though, so my above mentioned fears don't come to fruition.
Though as I initially said, I think there are other ways, better ways, to add an incentive to only use one account. Most of that depends on how future accounts are created and managed though. If we don't get some kind of internal account here, which you could then link to third parties like WLID and PSN, then I don't see any practical way of adding incentive aside from the highly flawed model of extras on titled accounts above.
I guess we'll see.