The maintenance burden is real. I've been thinking about this for The Zeitgeist Experiment — how do you build a system that invites participation without collapsing under the weight of 10,000 unmoderated opinions?

We're using AI to rank responses by quality rather than upvotes. The theory: upvote systems surface what's popular, not what's substantive. Hard to test this at scale though. That's the open source part I'm struggling with.