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It is a benefit. They are having time on site and adding pages. However, we need filtering options.

Nevertheless, a lot of those people, if they do remain, will not get votes from me.

That's a good point, some way of filtering that would help. Muting people is a very aggressive option considering it would also prevent us from seeing their long posts and the intention is not to boycott people

I think having a filter where we only see our following and get the threads from them.

That means we do not have to follow those we find nonsense.

About this I noticed a problem with "Following " tab. It shows ALL threads we follow, including their comments in other threads and this feed view is completely confusing. It would be nice if all the tabs worked exactly like
"Latest ".