I"m not sure how this entire discussion is anything other than "deal with it." And nobody ever did anything but complain about the knights of /new - they were the trashers of content, the annihilators of anything but memes. There's this notion that a global feed should be crap - rather than holding it to as high a standard as everywhere else. And that's where this discussion starts to bother me - nobody who's bitching reads global. When I pointed out that global chatter had been broken, mk observed that nobody browses global chatter but me. So here I am, speaking about something I use, that nobody else uses, and everyone is up in arms that my arguments for improving the functionality of that thing you don't use might offend those people you don't interact with.
We are all part of this community and this culture, and it's important to structure the site in a way that helps it grow. People having opinions different from yours and expressing them clearly is not bitching, it is simply disagreeing - this is discussion, it is what discussion sites are for.
I'm going to stay out of this beyond saying that I'll usually check the global feed once or twice a day to see what I've missed, and frequently use the chatter feature. So you're not quite entirely alone.And that's where this discussion starts to bother me - nobody who's bitching reads global. When I pointed out that global chatter had been broken, mk observed that nobody browses global chatter but me. So here I am, speaking about something I use, that nobody else uses, and everyone is up in arms that my arguments for improving the functionality of that thing you don't use might offend those people you don't interact with.
I also read global. I agree with what you're proposing.