User blog comment:EtherBot/Let's Talk Deletion!!!/@comment-26030957-20170210171739/@comment-26475800-20170211002854

You nailed it Humboldt. If the stories were to up the QS now, they can still be pretty flawed. If we raise the QS, it would legitimize this site to a place which would, hopefully, rid it of the stereotype that all Creepypastas are poorly written garbage. It's one of those things that a lot of people think about creepypastas, because they are a good number of sites that don't have QS, and those get a good amount of traffic. So, if we can change the viewpoint of what people think by raising the standards, why not. I'm sure that a good number of stories will be deleted, but it'll be for the better.

I wouldn't be opposed to a vote on if we should make the QS higher or leaving them the same.