Oh, right, it's much easier to change how millions of people use it. My point was that you need to work on acceptable use policies: gifs and such are usually o

Oh, right, it's much easier to change how millions of people use it. My point was that you need to work on acceptable use policies: gifs and such are usually ok in those #watercooler channels, but nobody should be required to participate in them. At the very least, you can mute them. I participate in a bunch of Slack channels where people are considerate, and introducing more friction in the tool to stop people from being inconsiderate is not the solution. OTOH, more considerate approach also leads to (useless) channel propagation, but that's also down to how somebody decides to use it. I still remember a time where people could and did have multiple parallel thoughtful discussions in unthreaded top-level messages in the channel (IRC): it wasn't that hard at all.