They tryna make us work for anti ads, I don't care about the ads, doesn't really bother me. That's how they keep it running, the ads doesn't really disrupt my reading, so buying an anti ad is not necessary 
The fact that they publicly show the points makes it feel like it's competitive, which I do not like, I swear if they add a leader board
I do like that they're trying to instill positivity by making downvote lose you more points. But I doubt it does anything, cause the community is already small and quite positive already. 

His balls got kicked

Damn, we can't even post images as well? Hopefully this is a temporary fix

I'm hoping it's a temporary change, to fix disqus, we'll see