The worst part to me is the binary nature of internet points.
Up or down. No difference between something one simply doesn't agree with vs utter and complete bullshit.
On the other hand I am not sure what the old internet forums I loved would look like if you scaled up the users 100X and then linked all these random forums together so one username interacted across message boards. That would have basically been a disaster and internet points would not have been the major problem.