User blog comment:EtherBot/Let's Talk Deletion!!!/@comment-26030957-20170210171739/@comment-25941663-20170211013313

To be honest, the QS are constantly being risen, even if it's not "official". They have not increased by much, but there is a constant increase.

The problem is that we don't have enough people to enforce much higher QS on the wiki. Sure, we could filter the stories that get posted, but it is nigh impossible to filter out the stories already on the wiki. Instead, the standards are being risen little by little, so we get better and better stories posted on the site.

A good (unofficial) indicator of the quality standards are my stories, more or less. I recently deleted one because it no longer met the QS. If you see another one of mine get deleted, it means the QS keeps rising (with the current rate, a story of mine will get deleted before the summer).