It's amazing how much social anxiety I have around leaving a Slack channel. I just can't bring myself to do it, what will people think?? I have accepted that I am stuck in channels for the rest of time.
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I find fully muting the channel to be a helpful compromise when I feel this way but I hate that I feel this way.
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Hm maybe I'll try the sidebar that shows everything (w/lots of muted channels), instead of only showing updated, so I don't feel so compelled to click. I like being abreast of things, but I'm also a compulsive reader and compulsive problem-solver... distractingly so.
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Changed to everything sidebar. New plan is to join sooo many channels and mute them all such that I get bored with the very prospect of clicking through them to find new morsels. :) Kind of like when I eat a whole peanut butter jar so that I'm no longer addicted to PB.
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There is an admin setting in Slack to turn off "join/leave notifications" -- we turned it off for this reason (make people feel comfortable leaving channels they don't need to be in)
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