I’ve read thru the post and the responses, and I’m not sure I see much value to this in relation to the possible issues.
I see a few positive things… namely the reports and ability to restrict commentors by certain metrics. As I do see value in the restricted accounts posting, or at least some way to identify them. I think that has been one (minor) problem area with the current communication channels outside known delegates and commentators theres no (easy) way to tell whose coming in good faith or just a bunch of alt accounts.
Payments - in practice I’m not sure that will be used much, or if it is it will just create more noise. I don’t want to outright dismiss it as I’m not a member of every forum whose ever tried this, but the few times I’ve come across this it fails miserably.
I understand the value in polling, but this forum has the ability to issue quick polls that anyone with an account can vote on already. Combined with some restrictions on who can vote would be nice, but that is essentially what Snapshot is for at the end of the day.
All decent ideas and I can see the value if we were starting ‘fresh’, but I don’t think at this stage this idea outweighs the one big negative — this will create even more of a fractionalization effect. We already have some of that with Twitter / Telegram / Discord, introducing another site into the mix I think just exacerbates that problem.