I know that it reloads the page when the button is clicked and one should notice what just happened, but maybe some people wouldn't notice.
I don't use the feature actually but I do experience the refresh of a particular page but I just take it as a normal refresh especially when I'm still at the top part of the page.
I don't think the forum should be changed because one new user with a few posts can't use his tiny screen without clicking on the wrong links. He could get a different device, or change the way he scrolls.
I don't think I was the only one that's experiencing this, it happens so fast that you might not notice and mabe it's the way I scroll but it's more like a normal scrolling to me when I'm just looking for main ideas of a thread, for example what made me created the thread was that I ignored ABCbits

, I saw it yesterday and I was like what's happened (I know this might have happened when I was going through his comments on my post I think) then I checked the link dropped on my last thread to check the list of ignored users and I saw 2 more , I said it earlier I don't use the feature.
The idea by Alone055 seems to be a good one