I think its only to show who is on here the most. lol This way, everyone knows who has wasted the most of their time. GCJ

I dont care what its for I just want more points and a higher ranking -somehow it is important to me

hehe actually, I dont know if it's implemented yet but there was talk about making higher ranked users give more points when they vote.

So if you vote an article as interesting at 110 rank it gives one point, but if you vote an article interesting and you have a rank of 10 , it might be worth 3 points. Though I dont know specifics or if they decided to go that route.

The theory i guess is to give more pull to those who read and comment often and prevent artificial vote flooding.

I'll do an article on it one of these days but basically the point system is to allow articles to get attention based on some sort of merit and not the whims of some admin.

When I started the site, I was frustrated at the seemingly arbitrary way that the "big" blog sites would link to other articles.  I'm a believer in democracy and so if enough people say "This article is interesting", respond to them, etc. it will get more points which will help it float to the top in the various JoeUser lists.