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.