Agreed. How about a compromise though - if I @username someone, show me when that user has seen my post? Facebook does this in PMs. If I see you read my post, and don’t respond within a minute, I can assume you’re not going to and lay the matter to rest.
Maybe it’s overthinking though. If this were a needed feature, somebody would probably have come up with it already.
True, true. Still, the issue of filtering out the signal from the noise remains an important one. It’ll be interesting to see what kinds of cultures Discourse will spark in this regard - especially seeing as there’s a dedicated team that will develop the product on a cultural level, as well.