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Suggestion: Allow filters based on age range. A lot of personally-unintersting content can be filtered out if it's only appealing to <14 year olds
We know how it gets on reddit during the summer holidays and I don't think anyone would suggest making an age restriction for the site, but if something is upvoted by 99% kids then it's probably not interesting to me.
So I guess the question I'm posing is:
'How do we filter out stuff that's blatantly outside of my demographics interest'
I'm guessing my suggestion of age filtering is going to run against Tildes ethics about not collecting user data, so perhaps someone will have a better solution in the comments.
Figuring out the demographics of certain groups would be a privacy issue. This isn't going to happen. Just subscribe to the groups you want, and don't to the ones you don't.
I'm sure it has worked out well at least once before.
Medically speaking you are wrong.
Filtering by she (or any demographic at all) seems like it would amplify any inherent filter-bubble effect that would already be present, which I think is one of the problems Reddit faces.
I can't think of a good way to achieve this. But I also don't see it as being an issue. Only posts from groups you are subscribed to will appear on your front page so that helps with general interests already. Other than that I don't think its too bothersome to just not click on a post that doesn't interest you.
The same way you do on any website: don't visit or subscribe to content you don't like. You shouldn't deny people entry based on unchangeable things about them