Board Thread:Administration/@comment-36249954-20181017150105/@comment-4849011-20181017171349

You make a very good point. There are a lot of sub-par stories that gained a lot of attention and even honors not because they were good, but because they were popular. Look at stories like the original "Jeff the Killer". Some previous PoTM winners you look at and wonder what was going on in people's heads, which is why changes were made to help weed out low-quality stories.