Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like what you want is to publish an anthology of submitted content, all about Ninja 400s. The behavior you describe is simply automating an existing business practice: acting as an editor when deciding what’s included in an anthology. That’s fine — but it makes you a publisher, not a platform.
> The behavior you describe is simply automating an existing business practice: acting as an editor when deciding what’s included in an anthology. Forums are typically about back and forth communication among community members that does not match the business practice of publishing an anthology or how anthologies typical work.
Counter-examples would be anthologies of the Anti/Federalist essays or topical anthologies of newspaper editorials.
Was your point that a newspaper editor picking letters to publish would be a better example?
I don’t think that contradicts my point that we’re discussing automating established printing practices.