any community that grows large enough needs some mechanism to manage trust, this is a universal issue. The early internet was more permissive and less differentiated simply because it was smaller.
The big corps do an alright job at managing spam given the sheer size of the problem, and more importantly you don't just need to solve spam, you need to do so economically, because for your system to stay distributed the nodes need to do the job competitively.
Given that there's intrinsic benefits to managing these things at scale that's not really realistic, in large systems you're always going to have division of labor and stratification for that reason.
