Tags will filter. So if you have a tagged view, you are saying "I want to see this ONLY". Me? I watch the firehose. I click on the "Topics" on the left side and watch all topics without filters. Filters (for me) are for when I get back after being away for a while and want to see "what I may have missed but am interested based on these tags". Once I have caught up on that, I then watch the unfiltered full flow of all topics come through. And doing that? We've got as many, if not more, topics going through the firehose than were going through both The Flood and Community combined. IMO, unfiltered is "Master Race" and I will probably only go to a filtered view as my regular view when the traffic and the membership gets too much to handle (probably 10 minutes after the darkness ends).