>>>I don't read and subscribe to chatter section (for some time now). But once in a while I want to post a question to one of the chatter forums. And I have to go to setup and subscribe to chatter before posting a question. And then I get a billion messages. And then I unsubscribe. It would be nice to be able to post to any forum without having to subscribe to it. Does it make sense?
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>>You only need to click the refresh messages button to clear all these, or collapse the the chatter tree so's not to see them.
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>Thank you for your suggestion. But my point was (and still is) that to ask a question in a chatter forum I have to go to my SETUP, enable the Chatter. Then go back and disable the Chatter. Every time.

What I said would save you from that palaver. I subscribe to several of the categories that I don't peruse - I just keep the drill-down closed and never need to see their messages unless I want to.