Well-designed networks reduce friction and help good stuff be found.

You’re defining “good stuff” by number of “Recommendations”. But this is wrong…

A widespread assumption is that the more content is liked or shared, the more engaging it must be, the more willing people are to devote their attention to it. However, the data doesn’t back that up. We looked at 10,000 socially-shared articles and found that there is no relationship whatsoever between the amount a piece of content is shared and the amount of attention an average reader will give that content. — Tony Haile, What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong

660 people have recommended your story. This tells us that your story is pretty popular. But it really doesn’t tell us how valuable it is. Value can only be communicated by sacrifice… micropayments. How much money would people give to your story? That’s what we don’t, but should, know.

Right now you’re helping everybody find the popular stuff. But popular stuff doesn’t equal good stuff. Valuable stuff equals good stuff.

If you want to help everybody find the good stuff… then let us use our pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters to highlight the valuable stuff. Then everybody can sort results by value rather than by popularity.