Since it costs $8 and requires a credit card it will be much harder (not impossible) to spin up many spammy bots. You could still have good bots. Without payin

Since it costs $8 and requires a credit card it will be much harder (not impossible) to spin up many spammy bots. You could still have good bots. Without paying for the checkmark the spammy bots/humans will have limited reach. Hopefully there will be less vile content in the future as a result. If not I'm sure they'll try something else.