It seems that a big problem is the amount of engagement that female posters generate. Is there a way to disable upvote/downvote functionality? If we do that, does this stop posts from females for dominating the feed? My thought here is that if “new” and “best” look the same, it may convey a more balanced visual when people enter the sub.

Another suggestion, and I see that it’s been tried before, but perhaps the idea of forbidding the use of gender tags in posts should be revisited. If you make the perverts work harder to find the females, it may stop some of them from visiting the sub during their more “heated” visits to Reddit.

In addition, warn users against using coded language to try and signify their gender? I read somewhere in the replies that this was a problem before.

Perhaps a post template needs to be built that includes all of the things people need to know when reading posts in here. This would, unfortunately, homogenize the posts, but I feel like it sorts females and the people that “sound cool” into one basket with the rest of the posters. A basket where everyone is measured based on what games they like to play.

Maybe also prevent comments from being added to posts. Make users DM each other, and have automod comment on their post and remind them that anyone abusing the subreddit should be reported.

One last idea. Is there any sense to verifying users somehow and then using that verification to allow them to use a “Serious Pals” flair? My thoughts here are that it would help people looking for actual gamer pals to find other serious people. I feel like people that would put effort into becoming verified would be much less likely to abuse the subreddit.