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Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments by hsod on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @03:09PM (#12307452)
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.

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Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments by superuser2 on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @05:28PM (#12308617)
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.

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Re:NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments by LarbarBarking on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @07:53PM (#12309441)
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.
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