[_joe]

The real throwback would be going back to use newsgroups, and only have competent people posting.

[Andrew_nenakhov]

Probably setting karma limits to allow only high-ranking users write. Plus moderate it to block gaming the system. Right?

[dagw]

One really nice things about newsgroups was that most clients let you write your own scoring rules for posts, meaning I could moderate each group and set "karma limits" based on what I cared about.