Mod
Actually, I think I'm not. But whatever.
Oh, joyous. Your talk page messages are coming up as new messages to me
That's because you put my talk page on your watchlist, and LiquidThreads puts all of the threads from the pages you're watching in Special:NewMessages.
God I hate liquid threads.
Why do people use the watchlist? WP, yes, it gets enough edits/day but we don't.
I use it for the RC bolding, because if things on RC weren't selectively bolded I'd have no idea how to navigate the site.
O_o Set to 500+, filter via js pages/people you don't care about. I can see the past 5 hours, add nav popups to leisure.
I'd say this wiki gets plenty of edits. Sure, not as many as Wikipedia, but still enough for the first 12 hours to be obscured by the second. I suppose it depends on how many changes you want RC to show. The watchlist is not just useful for the day's edits, too. If you're gone for a week, it's better to check your watchlist than it is to load recent changes over and again to check up on your articles. As to putting a user talk page on your watchlist, well, that's a little weird.
You're an alternate, though. I'm sure someone will quit.