Surely this isn't a new concept but I think it deserves a different perspective in the "modern" Internet.
Talk has become too cheap. Cheaper than talking in person. The <text> field has made it too easy to mindlessly post an opinion before fleshing it out or even finishing the argument well.
In the IRL world, talk is still cheap and still quite meaningless. I am from a country that I feel talks way too much. I probably wouldn't say that if the talk was interesting or new, which only occurs in about 5% of my daily conversations.
The Internet is supposed to let someone(s) make their own worlds. However, the walled gardens have made it too apparent that no one need understand the internet or even much of a computer. Just sign in and type.
That I think is what made me so interested with the early days of AOL, geocities, etc. Sure, the Internet was much easy to use than it had been, but there were still some technical barriers that users had to figure out.
And now I feel elitist and "tryanical" to say that I only want to talk with someone who, say, understands how to use a private / public key at the very least. I don't care if that over-respresents certain races or socio economic groups. It doesn't exclude anyone from learning and participating, but I prefer to hear from at least the people who bothered to persist with the most basic of concepts of the medium that they are using to express their ideas.
Right now, no one has a "speed bump" that makes them stop to think about their ideas or research others' ideas who could support or disprove theirs. It's way too easy to make a rant, take an emotional dump on the Internet, and leave.
I am not a communist, either. I think that everyone should have a type of Internet experience that they prefer. And I wonder how such "speed bumps" can be built in without turning people off.
And I'm not talking at all about a speed bump on freedom of expressions or thoughts. It is more of a speed bump to thwart two class of people I personally don't have good conversations
1) those who cannot or will not learn from others and teach themselves; in other words, stubbornly "stuck in their ways" (Read: mindset).
2) people who do not flesh out their ideas, however wrong I think they are. People should have the right to be wrong, but I don't want to hear from them if their opinion is full of intellectual short cuts or copied whatever is popular on reddit this week. One can go to reddit for that. You are just filling up a column and row on a Twitter database with a copy of an idea but in re-arranged words.