Currently PeerMind manages permissions who can vote (and comment and all other permissions) in a centralized way where users with admin permissions assign those to users. This works for some communities where you have for example elected officials to manage users. But some other communities might prefer an open membership model, where anyone can join and get basic permissions (like commenting) and then an algorithm or algorithms decide on more permissions. For example, we could compute web of trust between users and only users with some threshold of trust could vote. Or users could flag other potentially abusive/suspicious users and algorithm would take that into the account.
Currently PeerMind manages permissions who can vote (and comment and all other permissions) in a centralized way where users with admin permissions assign those to users. This works for some communities where you have for example elected officials to manage users. But some other communities might prefer an open membership model, where anyone can join and get basic permissions (like commenting) and then an algorithm or algorithms decide on more permissions. For example, we could compute web of trust between users and only users with some threshold of trust could vote. Or users could flag other potentially abusive/suspicious users and algorithm would take that into the account.