How to segregate a noisy class of users?

[Mevo]

@Heather_Dudley

it’s also causing some traffic stress on the entire installation itself. We don’t have a better solution for it right now

There may be an easy solution you may want to look into (what I am also going to do for me): Hide what you want to with a theme (using CSS). This would remove everything you don’t want from the front page but wouldn’t affect the “unread” page of all users who track one or some of the categories.

If what I mentioned earlier doesn’t work (I would be interested to know btw):

@Mevo

In your case, if you mute the whole category, and people start tracking a subcategory in it, wouldn’t that work ?

One guy did some interesting stuff on that front, probably worth some digging (his problem isn’t with subcategories or a user like you or me, but with groups. In the end it’s also quite the same base problem):

Hide categories according to user group membership

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