While I agree with the contents of your message - that the titles of the submissions should be more informative - I don't believe it is the job of moderators to

While I agree with the contents of your message - that the titles of the submissions should be more informative - I don't believe it is the job of moderators to do that, but the submitters themselves. Absolute numbers mean very little BTW. Recently some (but not all!) of the most interesting articles are those that are flagged or mysteriously disappear from the front page.