If you don't like it, the best way to do your part is to submit lots of great stories of the kind of stuff you'd like to see, and to upvote good stories in the "new" queue. If more people did this, the overall quality of the site would benefit.
I think there are too many stories, it's like a firehose. We should concentrate on killing more bad stores so the amount of stuff on Hacker News is a reasonable amount for someone to read.
