I commiserate with your plight :P . I do think the points from upvotes are useful as proxy for the latent demand for newsworthy news on the part of members. As

I commiserate with your plight :P . I do think the points from upvotes are useful as proxy for the latent demand for newsworthy news on the part of members. As such, they should probably be split in some fashion (e.g. weighted).