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 Benefits are unclear. 
 detriments are very clear

just saw one today

experienced several personally (the way the zaps have escaped text in them for zaps, notably)

you want to all run off building code but don't want someone to keep track of your protocol designs and architectures?

do you actually really not want anyone to come along and help? or is it in your mind that anyone new coming in is a hostile element to be fought against?

then obviously we need a small team of moderators keeping the data and impartially maintaining this separation and acting as adjudicators and documenting the state of it

let's say, like court secretaries

because having the judges be the prosecution at the same time is pretty uncredible 
 I agree, would be nice to have these things in a way that worked, but it's not really possible. 
 I do want someone to help organize this mess, but it can't be you, you're too opinionated and aggressive (which is not necessarily bad, but it's bad for this task specifically).