The way you're thinking is interesting. The objectives are educationally exposing power, counter-ops, and security - and were aligning towards a good balance. I hadn't considered the counter-ops.

How much of the SaidIt enemies do you think are just normal "citizens"? Like good ol' 'Mericans who would defend their country no matter what others said - except in this case they just visitors from Israel, China, Russia, even America and Canada - and they don't want to see their nation exposed.

How much of the SaidIt enemies do you think are organized and/or covert ops? Similarly from various origins serving power that doesn't want to be exposed.

How much do you think we could deter either civilians or operatives with a little counter agitprop?

How much of a difference is this signup puzzle to the typical stuff on SaidIt? Focused perhaps, but ultimately not much, IMO.

I like this brainstorming fun and don't want to deflate it, but these are my honest questions, and ultimately: Are we overthinking the signup puzzle?

To your ideas:

Because someone is from China (and thus censored and ignorant) or ignorant of China, IMO, they shouldn't be denied. I like the idea of making them do a little research homework to join (if they don't already know the answers), but wonder if that's too much.

I can't speak for all of them, but if you're a grunt who's hired to kill brown people in foreign lands you don't really care much how the government gets the money to pay your military salary to feed your family. I wouldn't expect it's too different by suggesting these cyber war assets think they're James Bond serving the Queen by hacking and crapping on our news aggregator. In short, it's just a job to them. I would hope that we make their lives hard and stressful and stir up inner conflict and like Facebook employees, they get PTSD, burnt out, and converted to believing conspiracy theories. I just don't think we can do all that during sign up.

Bonus: It hadn't occurred to me before, but obviously, even if these ideas aren't good for SaidIt, these security system concepts can be pondered, theorized, mulled over, and developed for the /s/PhoenixForum (for lack of a better name). The more solid that Next-Gen Forum idea gets, the more likely we are to previs it, and more likely folks are to actually build it.