> aquire comment points to be able to answer
I thought it was the opposite, you need answer points in order to comment (which resulted in people using answers as comments because they had no other option).
The rules changed, a lot.
You created an account one day and the only things you could do were commenting and asking questions; you created it some other day and the only things you could do were asking and answering questions; some other day the only thing you could do was asking questions.
Any day you signed up, asking any question first was a sure way to be downvoted bellow the threshold that would ban you from the site.