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@sun @lina @menherahair @mint See my posts above why I prefer the current default. Similarly my first reply is how both of our arguments are equally valid and how if you change it, the other side will get frustrated. There's no good default here that most users will like.

As for more traffic, I think that is still a good thing even though it tends to create unwanted derailment by less inteligent forms of life that can't see the difference between seriousposting and shitposting threads. I think the ratio is still far higher for wanted traffic. Other than that, this is a social media network, traffic is kinda what you want anyway. See what friends and others you follow talk about.

@sun @lina @menherahair @mint Do you get large amounts of unwanted traffic? I consider the sides equal because I rarely do. On the other hand I'm followed way less than you and don't attract the crowds that do this sort of thing.

If the amount of traffic you get is intolerable, would more filtering options help with that. Because instead of changing a default that the users doing this would just change back (not counting other clients), I think it is better to provide more filtering options instead, so that you don't have to see the traffic unless you choose to.

>shortly after a life change that required me to not spend as much time arguing online.

Feel free to reply hours or days later, doesn't matter. We can of course fight this in the next meeting with sticky notes ;)