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SomethingAwful handles this by charging for accounts, so if you get banned it costs 5 or 10 dollars to get a new identity. Urbit handles this in a decentralize
by hsod 10y ago
SomethingAwful handles this by charging for accounts, so if you get banned it costs 5 or 10 dollars to get a new identity.
Urbit handles this in a decentralized way by intentionally limiting the namespace, so that once it runs out you have to buy a name/address from someone who's selling.
- superuser2 10y agoSure. For something global though, it might be a problem when your price per account is five minutes' wages in one country and five days in another. I wonder if there's a way around this.
- LarbarBarking 10y agoMetafilter has a $5 dollar entry fee, but will waive it in cases of hardship. Seems like a decent solution as long as the community is small enough to have responsive management / moderation like Metafilter.