Chad and Matt,
This is just a suggestion and only my opinion, but in a way, rather than have the page value vs. page score (at least for mountain pages/routes) be more linear, or perhaps even using an exponent less than one, so value would level off at some point.
Having it exponential at the beginning can be good because poor pages still receive positive votes, but usually not as many.
The only reason I propose having the value level off at the end rather than to be exponential is because it creates a bias for high traffic pages and against new members.
Just about any mountain page (there probably is the rare exception) that is going to be high traffic has already been added to SP, probably years ago. As time passes, more and more lesser known mountains will be added (since the available well known mountains to add will shrink as time goes on).
Personally, from building my own pages I think that it is much harder to create a really good page on a lesser known mountain than it is with a well-known one.
I recently inherited a few pages for a well know mountain from a member whom deleted his/her content. Rebuilding it was easy because I could rely on not only not only on information gathered from my own climb, but check many online sources/guidebooks, etc. for more information, to refresh memory, etc. The mountain had several well-known routes as well and it was easy to list them.
On the other hand, when you create a page on an obscure mountain, it’s a lot more work. You have only your own personal experience to rely on. If there is any other information out there, you will really have to dig for it. You have to make sure your information is especially accurate because there are no other sources to check your memory against.
Random examples of two equally difficult and spectacular mountains in their own way:
http://www.summitpost.org/capitol-peak/150528
http://www.summitpost.org/morne-trois-pitons/770386
The first page was easy to write for the reasons listed above. The second page, although it appears to have less information was actually harder and more work to create.
On the front page, good pages will typically get more votes than bad pages, but once off the front page, the number of votes is fairly non-relevant and high traffic pages on well-known mountains will always receive the most votes (for obvious reasons). A page with 10 votes doesn’t always mean that it’s higher quality than a page with 50 votes; it just means that more people were searching for that mountain.
Of course this isn’t a complaint, only a suggestion and not a pressing issue.