[ry0ohki]

I do use the circles, but unfortunately even when i stick people in the "talk to much circle" Google defaults to showing the full stream. And I can't pick "Show me everyone but this circle", so then I'm manually clicking the other 10 circles only to see that no one else is posting.

[jamesbritt]

The Plus Minus Chrome plug-in handles this, turning the list of circles into checkboxes so you can have default stream that is a subset of your total streams.

Of course, if you're not using Chrome ...