2. The system of claim 1 , 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.
2. The system of claim 1 , 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. 4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the status score is determined based on at least one of a number of asymmetrical relationships that the author user has within the social networking service, a frequency at which the author user distributes items within the social networking service, a frequency at which other users interact with items distributed by the author user, and a frequency at which the author user interacts with other users of the social networking service.