@sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online and come to think of it, the risk of accidentally interjecting 'bored' into the chat window is _higher_ in the #2 case where it's more misleading. If the current conversation is really of no interest to me _at all_ then I'm more likely to minimise or close the chat window completely, and come back later to see if the subject has changed. But in case #2 I leave it open and keep checking back for the next part of the story – so the window is available for accidental keyboard focus, where it wasn't in case #1!