You're punishing people for intellectual curiosity. You can value it at 0, or at some large value, but it shouldn't be negative. This is like people who penali

You're punishing people for intellectual curiosity. You can value it at 0, or at some large value, but it shouldn't be negative. This is like people who penalize people with 4.0 GPAs because "that meant you focused too much on academics". If you really think it's fruitless, then at worst just ignore it.