Would Boing Boing ever implement a “commenter entry fee”?

[codinghorror]

I’d take a WAG that… 75%? of flags are either drive-by trollies, or spammers. That means 75% of the community time flagging is spent on this issue

Yeah reducing 75% of the flag burden is appealing.

@orenwolf

This second issue - derailing - would indeed be solved by some sort of TL0 approval queue (since their posts wouldn’t be seen), but with the added cost that 1) the community would be approving first-time posts instead of flagging them, and 2) there’d obviously be a delay before first time users’ posts would appear (since they’d need to be approved).

Yeah logistically the $5 commenter fee would be kind of a pain, no doubt about it.

Who would be approving TL0 new user posts though?

The old Civil Comments model (RIP) was for the TL0 users to approve each others’ posts collectively (3 random new users would have to vet each new user post), and that surprisingly does work well. It also puts all the labor on the people who are creating the work in the first place.

That’s not currently possible in Discourse but I’ve always found the idea intriguing.