Using votes to customize the experience is exactly what reddit was originally set up to do--that was their big founding idea (long before subreddits existed). I

Using votes to customize the experience is exactly what reddit was originally set up to do--that was their big founding idea (long before subreddits existed). I used to vote on every single story that made the front page, hoping to train my personal filter. They abandoned it after a while, though, and it never really worked.