The basic use case for crypto is imposing costs, and a protocol that uses it decides where you or your parties impose those costs. A cryptographic moderation protocol question would be, on what aspect of publishing a statement would you like to impose a cost?
To do that, we would need to break out publishing a statement into a collection of dimensions, like origin, destination, distance/reach, length, entropy/novelty, and likely some dozen or so others, then express our evaluations of them in terms of those criteria. The HN method of 'effect' is pretty good, and an origin's track record of engagement could give a new statement momentum, etc. Not to solution it - but in terms of what you would use tokenization for, it would be to impose costs on criteria expressed in these underlying message dimensions.
To do that, we would need to break out publishing a statement into a collection of dimensions, like origin, destination, distance/reach, length, entropy/novelty, and likely some dozen or so others, then express our evaluations of them in terms of those criteria. The HN method of 'effect' is pretty good, and an origin's track record of engagement could give a new statement momentum, etc. Not to solution it - but in terms of what you would use tokenization for, it would be to impose costs on criteria expressed in these underlying message dimensions.