This plan, to put it bluntly, has something of an "underpants gnomes" feel to it—there is a missing step between the action (closing questions) and the goal (attracting scholars). Are there in fact any scholars who would like to participate on the site but are put off by the existence of
identification-request questions? Perhaps their existence is obvious to the proposer, but it is not to me. Even one example of such a person would be worth having.