Guys, go look at dailykos, or one of the other scoop sites I linked. The front page is limited in who can post on it. I intend to only pick a few people to post on the front page regularly. I have a good mind of who they are (the handful of people I pitched this idea too), but obviously, over time, new people can assume front page posting, maybe do a poll on a yearly basis to promote new people as others step aside.
As for the personal dairies, well, there will be guidelines and a few limitations (two a day max per person, keep it relavent, can't simply be reposting of a link and news article without any personal analysis), but the point of them is that they are to be rather blog like. There will be no editing of those. The front page posters should be discrete enough to not require editing.
I think we are stuck on trying to be overly catchy or gimicky. I'd personally much rather, if I was calling a band to do an interview or something, say "Hi, I'm blah blahlastname from shortername.com" than "Hi, I'm blah blahlast name from "strangenamethatissolongandstrangeyoucantrememberitbutshowsoffhowcoolIam.com"
Anyway, I want to get this up and running so I can show people how the software works, then you might have a better idea of how it's going to happen.