I was one of those who thought that IF you decide to give points than length of the podfics should definitely be taken into consideration but I really see your point about that scaring away new readers. So I´d rather have the points abandoned altogehter so we can bath in each others awesomeness fair-mindedly.
This challenge was the so awesome and I´m more than glad that there are people like you mods who come up with such things.