I am an idiot -- I long ago turned off the chatterbox, and have been mystified ever since about why I am never informed when someone replies to one of my nodes.

I wonder if the chatterbox could be optionally split into two parts -- a "public chatterbox" and a "personal chatterbox" aka "messenging center". This would not only allow you to receive your personal /msgs without being constantly distracted by the public chat, but also by disallowing sending public messages in your personal chatterbox, you could prevent the common mistake <sfink> /mgs vroom I think you'd better run the script that artificially introduces longer and longer delays for that TimToady guy. He's talking about what a piece of junk he thinks Perl6 is again. So even people who want both public and private chatter might use the separate nodelets rather than the current combined one.

Update: chromatic's solution gives me pretty much everything I care about -- it doesn't solve the /mgs problem, but that hasn't been a major issue for me so far. Thanks, c!

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