[staplers]

While I appreciate no gatekeeping, the other side of the coin is gatekeeping via bots (vote manipulation).

Something like rotten tomatoes could be useful. Have a list of "verified" users (critic score) in a separate voting column as anon users (audience score).

This will often serve useful in highly controversial situations to parse common narratives.

[naasking]

I'm not sure anonymous users should be able to join. Arxiv's system of only allowing academic users seems fine for this, although exceptions could be made for industry researchers.

[staplers]

I meant "anonymous" to mean general public rather than truly anonymous. Could still have id requirements.

"Academic" in your example requires a vague umbrella which often is unenforceable in decentralized systems.