I don't think this would be a really successful model. For one, once this scales, it's either gonna cost a ton to moderate unless you have it do people volunta

I don't think this would be a really successful model. For one, once this scales, it's either gonna cost a ton to moderate unless you have it do people voluntarily, in which case you'll get moderators that don't care or alternatively you won't scale. On second, I'm having serious doubts if such a community could grow a honest and public forum wherein opinions and statements are calmly discussed and properly evaluated. Especially the second one is a huge problem, it makes any discussion platform essentially worthless, no matter how hard you try to be nice.