I'm not for replacing the forum bonus in favor of free advertising/marketing for a month. As several others stated, some on here either aren't very good marketers, nor care to market. They're happy earning the money they can through the offers and don't care about referrals. Heck, some users might not even belong to any other programs besides FusionCash. So for these type of people, this would be useless, whereas the actual $3.00 is something tangible. I also agree that the $3.00 bonus makes FusionCash unique from other GPT sites.
However, I think oldbuddy could be on to something. I understand why the rules are in place in regards to links. Even with telephone verification needed before posting, this place would turn into a haven of spam. But, there are many people on here who have been here a long time and proven to be loyal members, rule abiding, and not here to use it purely as a means to try and self promote.
I think it would be intriguing if senior type members were eventually allowed some extra perks (like oldbuddy's idea of linkage in signatures). How you earned this perk would have to be determined. Basing it on post counts is not a good method, as a spammer could come in and make a bunch of crappy posts in a month or two to hit the mark. A better way would be something like x amount of cashouts, x amount of money earned, or even x amount of approved forum bonuses. Or a combination of any of those if need be. If you did something like just days as a member, people could still just sign-up and then wait out the time limit without really doing offers. There also could be levels on these, like once you hit a certain amount, you're allowed one link, the next level allows two links, etc, until you reach a final level where you're only allowed whatever would be determined the max amount of links in a signature.
Just a thought.
This is a great idea. I probably wouldn't qualify right now but would give me something to continue to work for. Personally, I like the $3 bonus.