🔔 Exclude specific databases from “automatically watching” self-created or database-level notifications

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This setting presents some challenges:

Automatically watch entities, documents, and whiteboards I create

I generally like the idea of automatically watching what I create. However, as someone who frequently creates entities and databases, I don’t necessarily want to watch every single entity, especially not in every database. It would be helpful to exclude specific databases from this setting to avoid cluttering my inbox with unnecessary notifications (e.g., Entity {Name} linked to Entity {Name} x50). This issue is compounded when entities are auto-created and I’m set as the default creator.

For example, I’d like to be notified when someone comments (without mentioning me) on an Internal Changelog or makes changes to a Team Project I created but am not actively assigned to. However, I don’t want alerts every time a new Service Ticket—automatically created via API—is linked to our Product Inventory, even if I’m listed as the creator of both. While I can manually unwatch specific entities, doing this every time something is auto-watched is tedious and inefficient. Since this situation often applies to entire databases, it would be far more effective to allow exclusions at the database level (like we have in Fibery Search).

Alternative

Allow for database-level notification preferences with more granular options like:

This Database

Notify when entities I created are linked to another entity
Notify when someone comments on an entity I created
Notify when an entity I created is modified

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