Bleh
Nobody is playing beta with day-to-day operation is my point, hence the chicken little analogy. There is only two pages were this is being trialled and the people here are acting like this is the final product about to be hoisted across the entire site. We are unlikely to implement this before Wikipedia does at least.
It's the people who are screaming "OMGZ LiquidThreads is ruining my wiki, delete it NAO" and who think lqt should be "uninstalled for a useless piece of junk, the bits that harbored it degaussed, burned over and sown with salt".
I don't understand, why does it say I have four new messages, and link here? None of you nice people are talking to me, as far as I can tell.
Sigh. Human, it's not that hard to understand. You have replied to this thread. This automatically watches this thread (similarly, when you edit a talk page, it's automatically added to your watchlist - I haven't tested, but lqt probably respects the preference option). If you don't want that, go to preferences->Watchlist, and untick "Watch threads that I create or reply to". Also unwatch this page if you are watching it and any individual threads on it. When someone replies to a thread you are watching, it will count as a "new message for you". Yes, the phrasing is stupid, it should be "there are replies to threads you are watching". You have to click Mark as read on Special:Newmessages to clear the notification.