What’s being proposed is a little different. Unlike Kinja, it would be only the first comment (or the first comment in a couple of years) of a TL0 user and it wouldn’t be visible at all except to TL3+ members. Once they’re past their first comment there aren’t any more greys, just working up through TLs as currently happens.
There are definitely a few freeze peachers and champions of so-called “unpopular” or “politically incorrect” (e.g. racist dog-whistling, JAQ-off apologism for fascists, disinformation, etc.) opinions at that trust level.* A simple voting mechanism might be in order to offset them. Say it takes 3/3 or 2/3 TL3+ members approving or denying the post to render a decision.
Voting mechanism or not, the main goal would be to reduce the incidence of first-comment drive-bys and hobbyhorse-riders/fanbois and spammers, which are only going to increase during election season.
[* discuss here if you must]
