I would like to try my opinion regarding your 2 matters Santa hurt.
- Some form a leaderboard. (I would like us to have something simple at first so we can provide reasonable actionable feedback on things we can change to make it better)
This one is a bit tricky to do, probably a form of a counter regarding on how many activities a member of the community shared or did. How to filter and count those is.. I am not expert to those things but i guess it is possible if proposed by the right guy.
- I want an easier way to curate member comments.
yeah this one should be address early specially if the members are more than enough to handle by your HP. I guess we could try levelling their category on a badge like or role like things that can be gained by the members activity. If a member qualified the criteria, then it can be granted perks by the community.