I don't see any difference between hashtags and community IDs. Their meaning is fluid and can be taken over by the crowd at any point. Unless you filter by a moderating relay, which then both IDs and hashtags also apply and the definition is whatever the relay, not the users, want.
They can all be spammed in the same way. The stronger they are, the more spam they are going to get.
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there's no difference in terms of spam prevention, its really just to have an anchor for the creator to define the name, banner, and description. if you don't care about those things you can just use a hashtag (#physics) or namespace (!sci.physics.quantum) anchor.
I've always wanted explicit to/cc on notes, so I would throw that in there as well for relay filtering and better hinting:

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Distributed namespaced discussions · Issue #788 · damus-io/notedeck
We can create non-moderated twitter/reddit-style communities like so: Basic ingredients NIP22 Comments for threads. Simple immutable, non-addressab...