I’m thinking of starting a community for thouroughly researched investment and trading proposals (crypto/stocks/etc)

My idea was to have a severely restricted subreddit and/or community here that would have some or more of the following criteria:

• No posts from users with account age under e.g. 2 years
• No posts that don’t meet the requirements set in the community guidelines
• No more than 1 post per member each week
• Posts must be approved to be visible
• etc…

The goal being that it can’t be easily targeted by spam bots, can’t easily be gamed and every post must be approved by a valued member.

The main problem I have with subreddits is the amount of power mods have in doing shady behind the scenes deals and/or pump and dump schemes. I don’t want anyone to even question that I may be doing that or even be able to do it.

My idea on Reddit was to create the subreddit with a new account and livestream that account’s inbox to show that there’s no funny business going on. That’s obviously pretty stupid and inconvenient and would require any other mod to do the same.

What I’m after is a community whose content is very carefully curated whilst being as trustworthy as possible by making it heavily locked down and in fact quite trustless.

One part of the solution I’ve thought of is for the platform to have a feature whereby mods can be anonymous and personally uncontactable whilst at the same time making all messages and post requests public for anyone to see. This would remove the ability for scammers and con artists to secretly contact mods and conduct shady deals because anyone would be able to see that taking place.

However mods would still be able to reach out to shady actors and prove that simply by logging in and revealing the dashboard.

The solution to this would be to give many longstanding members of the community some lesser mod privileges to approve posts. These members would have to have been members for a while and have submitted posts to the community. With this system, they also have to approve each post before it is posted. That removes an element of control from the mods. My thinking was that it could choose 3 currently online members who have this lesser mod privilege at random and request their approval. If those accounts go offline or don’t respond for a few minutes it then selects approval of other members.

Are there any better solutions that have been thought of or are already implemented?

Is this something that you guys have thought about or would consider?

Would love to hear your thoughts on this