Kanban Board - Default "Is Ready" to Yes

It seems that the only way for the "Is Ready" flag to get turned on with a Kanban board is to physically drag an item out of the Backlog. If a developer clicks into something from the backlog and changes the status to "In Progress", the item disappears from the board. Please add a setting to default "Is Ready" to "Yes" for all incoming work to a Kanban team.