It is correct to set the “default other notification level when replying” to “Watching” instead of “Tracking”.
If “Watching” is annoying, each user can set it to “Tracking” and run it that way for a while until there are complaints.
Is that what you mean?
That may indeed be a correct opinion, but my community is quite active, so in that case, I find the email notifications about simple topic updates to be quite annoying…" I tried to find a way to set up email notifications only for replies or mentions to me, like I did with “Tracking”, but I couldn’t find it.