Why not make subscribing to a thread manual? You can subscribe to a thread of you think it is important. The subscription will last for 3-4 days or maybe a week

Why not make subscribing to a thread manual? You can subscribe to a thread of you think it is important. The subscription will last for 3-4 days or maybe a week. Someone will probably make a client that automatically subscribes you to your comments. But that will probably be a vanishingly small number of users. And flame wars would require both sides of the war to have their subscription on. The notifications themselves can be delayed too, so you can either manually follow it to stay fully up to date or deal with a few minutes or hours of delays. Basically too inconvenient for a troll, but usable for most probably productive purposes.