At the risk of stating the obvious, the most important factor determining the quality of stories on is how you define quality. The usual definition is to equat

At the risk of stating the obvious, the most important factor determining the quality of stories on is how you define quality. The usual definition is to equate quality to popularity. This is problematic since the hordes of 14 year olds outnumber those of us who like the current quality. Popularity does have some nice properties, so you probably don't want to ax it completely...just give priority to the right subset of people.