Alert only people that have been in the room recently for chat events

Question

Chat pops up a notification anytime a scheduled event in a room you're interested in is about to start. Unfortunately, it defines "room you're interested in" as "room you've been in, ever", and there appears to be no way to tell it otherwise.

I've been in quite a few chat.SE rooms for sites I'm not actually interested in, so now every week I'm told that SF is discussing recommendations, DIY is doing "Project Update Thursday", etc.

Can it be changed so either:

• Chat only alerts people that have been in the room recently
• Chat lets you opt out of receiving notifications for certain scheduled events

Answer 1

it defines "room you're interested in" as "room you've been in, ever"

Not quite; the definition was "room you've spoken in, ever, or are in right now". But I agree, that's too broad of a definition. Just because you wanted to yell at a sysadmin once* doesn't mean that one year later, you want to be notified of the "Panel discussion: vim vs. emacs for config file editing" event.

So from now on, the definition of "room you're interested in" is as follows:

• Either you're in the room right now,
• or you have ever spoken in this room, and at least one of these two is true:
  • the last time you spoke here was less than 30 days ago, or
  • the last time you were in the room was less than 7 days ago.

_{* You should never yell at a sysadmin. Sysadmins are the backbone of our work. Love ya, Kyle, George, and Pete! Please don't take away my VPN account.}