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As far as simply creating a social experiment within a forum goes, both of your ideas sound great and I see no reason not to try them out. However, I would say that the first sounds like mob rule and the second like meritocracy.
We're so conditioned to thinking of a society as being divided into leaders and populous that it's very easy to miss the point of anarchy and think of it as being what arises when you take away the ruling classes. Of course what really happens in those situations is that everybody fights to become the new ruling class. An anarchistic society should really be one in which nobody imposes their will on anybody else, not just one in which the ruling classes do not impose their will on the populous. If people go around shooting each other then you're about as far from anarchy as you can get.
If you wanted a true model of anarchy, I would say take away the deleting and banning powers. After all, by not giving people these powers you are not removing anything from them which they had before, you are simply not granting them the ability to impose their will on others.
If you wanted to then keep some sense of order, maybe you could have the forum only open to invitees, who would be able to invite others etc. That way, everybody in there would have at least some sense of mutual responsibility towards other members of the forum
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