Thanks for your positive contributions and thought-provoking articles too. As far as I'm concerned, if this is indeed a mutual aid society - it's definitely more difficult to allocate resources for those not revealing -enough- identity to be trusted, especially if interactions with the broader community is limited for organic vouching. In a way, there's still a subjective, not-digitally-measurable side to reputation no matter what rep-point system is being implemented.

To add on, improving on the rep system and getting new "quality" users on board, I've recently commented on @pfunk's post on it about some abstracted karma system, which could also add to a more "localized" kind of self-policing - you can check it out here :) - https://steemit.com/steemit/@pfunk/plagiarism-on-steemit-a-look-at-jpiper20#@kevinwong/re-pfunk-plagiarism-on-steemit-a-look-at-jpiper20-20160928t005947372z