Ok. That would help a lot.<p>It will at least make people that have been here for a long time have the same privileges as an account that is less than 5 minutes old.<p>I'd hate to be in your shoes on this one, it's one of those 'damned if you do/damned if you don't' kind of things.<p>From the sidelines it is easy enough to criticize but I've run enough websites to know that a users point of view is not always the same as the point of view of the person that tries to maintain the atmosphere.<p>I'm all for dropping the points, in fact, as far as I'm concerned you can drop the leaderboard as well.<p>If someone is interested in the karma of a user they can always go and look at the profile.<p>At least like that we get rid of stupid comments like 'I made it my mission to be in the top 100'.