Somewhat tangential to the article, but here's what I would like: A site like reddit, but you have to get your government ID verified when you sign up.
You can still pick any alias you want, but mods see your location within, say, 100 miles.
Imagine reddit with no bots, banning has consequences, and local subreddits can actually just be people who live there.
The painful sign up flow makes that totally unreasonable, but it would vastly improve my online community experience to live without bots and more limited trolls.
*edit to clarify* -- i don't want them to _have_ my ID, just use some kind of service from stripe or visa or whoever where they get a hash, so that banning is stickier.
You can still pick any alias you want, but mods see your location within, say, 100 miles.
Imagine reddit with no bots, banning has consequences, and local subreddits can actually just be people who live there.
The painful sign up flow makes that totally unreasonable, but it would vastly improve my online community experience to live without bots and more limited trolls.
*edit to clarify* -- i don't want them to _have_ my ID, just use some kind of service from stripe or visa or whoever where they get a hash, so that banning is stickier.