I've been playing for a long time, but I never thought of myself as competitive or think of learning the tricks/advantages that seemingly most competitive Golds know. Obviously I like to win, but who doesn't?
Im Gold threat right now, and have been for years. Havent been Silver in 2+ years and I don't dethreat. I'm competent enough to put up a fight against most high-rank golds, but being a mid-level Gold myself, who doesn't think of APB as my life or strictly play APB, I'm not like them, I consider myself a High-Quality Silver lol. I'd be near the top-grade Silvers, but not really good enough to get into Gold and be competitive against them.
I'd like this idea, at least as a test for a new threat system and see how it works out. In theory it seems like it'd work well.
Edit: Since I've been playing rather consistently, I've actually been fluctuating between Silver/Gold pretty often. I'd say a switch per day maybe. Like I said, I'm pretty borderline threat in my skill.