Thanks for adding issues like that, makes it a tad easier to follow what's already in the pipeline. Badges for packages sounds like a good idea too. But speaking of the user profile issue there are lots of possibilities:

* time, 30 days for bronze, 60/silver, 90/gold, to become gold will take at least 180 days
* after 30 days you automatically become bronze
* you can not get higher rank than bronze without uploading a package
* you can only vote on your current rank and lower
* to become higher rank than bronze you must have a package support thread on tmo
* to become gold will not be possible automatically without some form of manual interaction, voting process

And I'm pretty sure that others have ideas about this too.