13. The computer storage media of claim 12 , wherein generating the quality score for a particular item comprises: identifying the author user of the particular item, the author user having authored the particular item; retrieving the status score as an author-specific score associated with the author user; and generating the quality score based on the status score.
13. The computer storage media of claim 12 , wherein generating the quality score for a particular item comprises: identifying the author user of the particular item, the author user having authored the particular item; retrieving the status score as an author-specific score associated with the author user; and generating the quality score based on the status score. 14. The computer storage media of claim 13 , wherein: the author user and the user are members of a social networking service, transmitting the instructions to display items to the user comprises providing the items for display in a stream page for the user on the social networking service, and the status score is determined based, at least in part, on characteristics of the author user within the social networking service.