Thread:User talk:Nx/Reality check/reply (18)

I'll agree with that. Again, it comes back to the whole "automatically watch pages I post on", which is very useful with the present system. Watched stuff with new messages is displayed differently on the Watchlist or RC, and you can pick and choose as you like.

But say this gets put in general use as-is. Then you can no longer go "oh, that's Nx's talk page where I put a casual message a few months ago, I can ignore that". It's stuck in with everything else, and you've got to sort through it. Either that, or remove that page and others like it after every random message, which is pretty damn clunky.

One advantage that the current system does have in that sense, it occurs to me, is the edit summary system. A lot of the time it isn't used, but at least it usually shows whether it's a section of the page that I care about or not. So again, maybe there's a conversation on Nx's talk page I wanna know about, but I don't care about the programming-related ones. With RC/Watchlist I know beforehand whether to bother with the conversation. Not so much with LT, since it all gets tossed in one big "new messages" bin.

Now if there was some way to deal with issues like that, it wouldn't be much of a problem. Not sure how it'd be done, though.