This would help deal with HOT20/AOM votes and gallery trolls and people who keep coming back no matter how often they are shown the door. Something like $10/account name might be reasonable. If you keep one name over 5 years it is peanuts, but if you and your 20 clones are trying to disrupt the forum, it might be enough of a hurdle. Hard to say if that would even work since you don't know how much the trolls are willing to go through are you? That's only using money as a filter to exclude the ppl that haven't got it. It sounds to me like treating a hangnail with an ax, the cure being a lot more damaging than the disease. Would it be worth it to pay for what the services provide? IMHO they'd have to offer a lot more stuff for a paid membership to be worth it and no clear indication that it would improve the community, since paying isn't a solid motivation to induce the kind of behavior you mentioned.

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