I don't have to pay to write comments, but I would likely have to lock up capital tied to an account while the comment is being rated, which can be lost permane

I don't have to pay to write comments, but I would likely have to lock up capital tied to an account while the comment is being rated, which can be lost permanently. Having an account with more verified comments can have a mark or rating of quality that can be queried off a blockchain outside of the centralized website that serves the data, which can be investigated independently by a user suspicious of centralized vote manipulation. What users do when seeing comments from accounts that have lower signals of quality is up to the user to decide. If they would rather listen to voices from unverified accounts over ones that have higher signals that's for them to ultimately choose. No one will be required to necessarily lock up capital to comment, and no one will be required to only look at comments from those who locked up capital. This is just an example I thought up of on the spot, but I believe there are people who actually did a much deeper dive into these concepts.