The Stack Exchange sites provide new users with an increasing amount of privileges based on their karma (example). In principle, something similar could be implemented here, with separate privileges such as (in no particular order):
Meetup creation doesn’t seem to need a barrier. Perhaps a useful privilege that could come with enough karma would be to allow users to edit tags on articles. Separating voting on comments and main seem reasonable, but I don’t quite see why separating down voting and up voting would do any good.
The Stack Exchange sites provide new users with an increasing amount of privileges based on their karma (example). In principle, something similar could be implemented here, with separate privileges such as (in no particular order):
Vote comments up
Vote comments down
Vote posts up
Vote posts down
Create Discussion posts
Create Main posts
Create meetups
Meetup creation doesn’t seem to need a barrier. Perhaps a useful privilege that could come with enough karma would be to allow users to edit tags on articles. Separating voting on comments and main seem reasonable, but I don’t quite see why separating down voting and up voting would do any good.