I have a suggestion to the ongoing question or debate about points, the upvoting and down voting of comments. With the intention of improving the quality of posts here and eliminating the frivolous, inane, or stupid waste of bandwidth. Assign each user a base amount of Poal currency when they sign up attached to their IP. Each post a user makes costs a small amount of currency. If the user obtains an up vote he is rewarded with a small amount of currency and it costs nothing to award an up vote. Enough upvotes and the post costs them nothing to make, in fact they can bank currency. Down votes cost both the caster and the recipients. So those who make favored quality posts are the arbiters of what constitutes acceptable behavior. Unpopular posts will deplete the posters account. Once depleted if the inane poster wants to continue he must purchase more currency from the administration which can be used to maintain the site.