Topic: Post reply notifications "Deflate" (Read 863 times)

I know. I use the watchlist too but for me it something for more important posts. I use the watch option on a post rarely. And that's because half of my new replies page is filled with old and now irrelevant to me posts I once replied to.

Sounds like a decent idea.

But just FYI the watchlist can be great for this too? You automatically "watch" topics that you replied to. Then just "unwatch" topics that are not interesting anymore?

I'm guessing that this could be something simple but effective.

Let me break down how I think this shoud work in my mind.

I'm using me as an example. So let's say that I'm someone who visits Show new replies to your posts. regularly. I ofter reply to posts there and many times they are posts I really care and want to be updated about. But not all of the times.

The posts that are always on top of this page are posts that encourage everyone to reply, like "What's your favorite song" or "count to 1m with images" or even "Get free coins here". Those are posts I replied to, maybe not more than once and certainly I did it a while ago. But replies keep coming constantly even until today. I keep getting notified about these posts on top of more recently created discussions. Just because people reply to them on a more constant flow they sometimes get to "outshine" others that also received a reply earlier today.

So what is my proposal? Depending on how old your latest reply to a post was, it receives deflation points. Wich make it to appear lower on the new replies tab. Also a nother factor to add those Deflation points could be how old the OP is. Ofcourse I think there should also be an option to disable and enable this.

This could also make necroposting and constant bumping less efective and promote newly created posts a bit more at the same time. Maybe deflation could even be useful for sobforums and the front page.