Excellent quints but as so ripe for abuse if someone were inclined.
>Invite only basis, merit based etc.
Who's to judge? Can we all trust the deciders? If it's just anons, who's to judge who's a shill upvoting shill posts and who's not? What if we're all genuine but just don't agree and half get left out of some new board?
Like it or not, hivemind can work against us if the shills do it well enough and this would only give them a giant foothold into the board's agency.