Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
Otherwise, I will NEVER understand why someone complains about their own inability to scroll on, or hit their own delete key, and instead blames someone else for all their own incessant typing to respond to something that does not interest them.
Huh? 'splain away - I'm all ears!
They aren't saying they can't delete the messages; they're saying that the most effective filtering strategy for them is currently to unsubscribe rather than to deal with the large number of individual messages.
Even at 5 seconds per message, yesterday's traffic would have taken 15 minutes to sort through, and many people apparently feel the benefit received for time spent is too low.
That a version with a better cost/benefit ratio would appeal to many people seems unsurprising to me. Wikipedia's popularity is due in large part to our ability to satisfy that desire, rather than just suggesting they just get better at filtering out the information they don't want.
William