I would remove the leaderboard, I wouldn't let people see points on comments, I'd start to fade out comments after -1 points rather than 0. Essentially, I'd rem

I would remove the leaderboard, I wouldn't let people see points on comments, I'd start to fade out comments after -1 points rather than 0. Essentially, I'd remove everything that encourages a bullshit competition in place of productivity. I'd also consider letting users with high karma define a block list for sites. TechCrunch I'm often fine with, but I'm astonished people still submit stories from Copyblogger here.