User blog comment:EtherBot/Let's Talk Deletion!!!/@comment-31283382-20170211142434/@comment-26475800-20170211175102

Dix, creepypasta.com's QS are either the same or slightly higher than here. The only reason why some shitty stories can slip through their QS is if it is voted on at crappypasta.com.

On to the main subject now, voting isn't the best idea on what can should be allowed or not. Let me give a perfect example of what would be on this site if everyone voted: Jeff the Kill, Jane the Killer, Clockwork: Your Time is Up, Thomas, and countless others. Does anyone really want to have their work associated with those stories? I can't speak for everyone, but I know I don't want anything I've written to be considered in the same category with any of those stories.

We do have people who vote on these stories, that's what the M4R and Delete Now tags are for. But, if we didn't have the QS, anyone could get butt hurt and decide that they were going to get back at the person who marked them to get their stories deleted.

So, the QS are there not only to protect the integrity of the site, but also the stories it holds. There are a ton of stories, at least in my opinion, that aren't up to snuff. But who really has the time to go through them all? If something slipped through the keen eye of Empy, well, there's a good chance it'll stay.