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.
Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
by superuser2 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:28PM
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Sure. 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.
Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
by LarbarBarking on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:53PM
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Metafilter 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.
Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments
by dredmorbius on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:51PM
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That's what an accrued-over-time reputation is supposed to help with.
Your Imaginary Internet Points on HN, for example.
That is: you can have an alter ego (or 5) that aren't easily linked to your real identity, but new identities are hard enough to come by that getting banned isn't trivially bypassed by a new identity.
This would be a major step for email/messaging spam too.