I use the Replies tab all the time. It allows me to keep tabs on all the conversations I'm having and never miss a reply I get. I find it incredibly useful.
A feature I'd like to see on Steemit is a priority feed. I am currently following almost 400 people and I have a good reason to follow most of them. But this means that my feed is flooded with more content than I can reasonably handle. I don't want to unfollow most of the people I'm currently following because I am indeed interested in their posts and even if I miss some, I'd still like to have a chance of seeing something from them. And if I stumble on something interesting, I can always go back and check more of the person's posts that I've missed from before.
But there are authors that I really like and that are not on equal footing with the rest of my followers. I would love to have the option to select some of the people I'm following and to put them into a priority feed. In this way, when I'm on steemit to read, I can look at the priority feed first and make sure I haven't missed anything from the authors I like the most, and then can go to my more general feed to continue looking for interesting content from the rest of the people I find interesting.
I think something like that would work well and would make it easier to not miss the highest quality content.
A priority feed would be wonderful. I have an "ad-hoc" solution to that; I just keep a list of "extra-fave" authors and make the rounds from time to time. As long as I get around at least weekly, I can reward them with votes.
But yes, some built-in tools to facilitate that would be nice...
P.S. I hope you didn't miss the fact that even if you use your Replies tab faithfully, you may be missing replies?
I indeed missed it. How so?
What I do to possibly avoid that is I start over looking at the replies I've gotten from the last one I have upvoted and the dark blue upvote arrow allows for a relatively clear distinction. Still, it's always possible to miss something. Like opening something in a new tab and then closing it by accident and so on.
For instance, you might have actually missed the reply I have last left you in your post about the truth about the bible where you mentioned arrogance. Or you might have just decided there is nothing to reply to there too ;)
One of at least two things; either you didn't read my article carefully, or I did a poor job of explaining that many comments under an article are not reported in the Reply stream.
I indeed was so sure I understood the Replies stream correctly that I read the part about misdirected comments and still didn't really comprehend your point there. My bad entirely.