The reason I keep mentioning it as not being a loss to stackexchange is because in the justification you say > users who browse but never vote or post just are

The reason I keep mentioning it as not being a loss to stackexchange is because in the justification you say > users who browse but never vote or post just aren't really that valuable, relatively speaking – except to encourage cross site discovery which we intend to incentivize in other ways. and for the behaviour I desire I fit exactly the mould of a user who isn't looking to vote or post. Okay, I might vote on the excellent responses, but on the sites that I just want ?tab=week or ?tab=month behaviour from, I don't want to ask questions.