It's probably an artifact of the website being small. I don't have a solution but I'll probably switch to global more often or as a default. This does nothing for comments though. It's kind of an entrenched culture at this point that this website is a community and it's better for that. When it's really like 12 users or whatever who think they know each other and that's no way to grow a site. I've really not been around that long but there's like a core group that I have no interest in being a part of but dominates discussion and can tilt it towards one side when a member is seen to be affronted. If there's a conflict it's going to come down to who has more followers and I've been on the short side maybe 2-3 times. You can strive for a community atmosphere but the reality is that this is a collection of strangers with an open invitation for more strangers to join, and that invitation is the metric for success but it seems very stagnant to me at the moment as something of an outsider