I feel like this has massive overlap with trust levels; it’s building a parallel system for.. well, I’m not sure why. In the quote you posted, that is literally the reason we have trust levels in the first place. So tying content unlock to
- trust level 1 (a tiny bit of reading)
- trust level 2 (a fair bit more reading)
should cover this scenario.
There are many many things I’d rather we work on than this.