But a more fundamental question is what we mean by 'post quality'. Right now, the vote total is the only objective metric of post quality; if we're trying to re

But a more fundamental question is what we mean by 'post quality'. Right now, the vote total is the only objective metric of post quality; if we're trying to rethink the voting system itself, we need a lower-level set of objective quality criteria if we want evaluate how well a proposed ranking system works. What are 'crap', 'douchebags', 'fools', and 'sheeple'? Different people have different thresholds for assigning these labels. Until a discussion board establishes quasi-official definitions of these terms, whether by consensus or by fiat, you can't use them to measure anything.