User blog comment:EtherBot/Let's Talk Deletion!!!/@comment-26326346-20170210054830

A voting system would likely be abused like the Pasta of the Month one was and would/could result in good stories being deleted, while bad ones get to stay (because a troll makes multiple sock accounts to vote). It'd be such a headache of a system. We already have two archives for deleted pastas, the spinpasta/trollpasta wikis.

I'm positive that no one here is closed to the idea of a better system, but the thing is that a better system hasn't been suggested. If we do away with quality standards, then a lot of people won't see any reason to try hard or to improve. I want to point you to the deletion appeals: 40 to 80 story appeals per page and 20+ pages of deletions with very few approvals. That'd be a lot of wading to try and find a good pasta if we allowed anything on the wiki. People do pass the appeals and those are the ones that put in effort and ask for help. Help is always given when asked for here.

Based upon these points alone, I'd say that the system isn't broken and in need of a fixing; working as intended and in everyone who is serious about writing's best interest. Those that are willing to seek improvement and put in effort are the types of users that should be welcomed here. If you, or anyone else, does have a better idea, then I'm all for it.