[Terretta]

The actual point values seem wildly meaningless, perhaps you shouldn't even display them.

For a minute there, I thought you were summing the article points and the total points of all comments, which would be an interesting ranking as well.

[RiderOfGiraffes]

Respectfully, I disagree. The points are clearly correlated with how high the item gets, and how long it stays on the front page. As such, I think the ranking is of value. It also has the merit of being simple to compute, and easy to explain.

Elegant.