Feedback on Sort Options

I've been using the new community site and following the upgrades/progress for a while now and I have a suggestion for one thing that I feel is more limiting to my site experience.

The issue is sort options. We have "hot" "recent" and "best" currently. I find that I use "best" and "hot" most often but I frequently find what I really want is some middle ground between the two. Best just shows the same old largely viewed/commented threads every time and ends up being essentially useless to me after the first time I browse them(although this may be true only to a lesser degree if the community was larger and more active). Hot is nice, but I feel like the hot threads are often too young for what I'm looking for. What I really want is a thread that has a good amount of recent activity but also has some higher threshold of total quality(as shown by ups).

I don't know what the current criteria is exactly between the options so I can't say exactly what the solution should be, but I think something that's effectively a slider between different options would be best. Maybe even a slider between all 3. (although, for all I know, "Hot" may actually already be a chosen point on a slider scale between best and recent. If that's the case a slider between all 3 doesn't make sense).

I'd love it if any of you on the community team could respond to this or share what thoughts or plans you might already have.

Thanks for listening to my feedback!