Frankly, I can't see the point of having a minor changes setting. Far too often significant changes are listed as minor, and minor changes as significant. Often this occurs by accident. Other times, it's someone hiding their actions. There also seems to be no universal agreement on what kind of change is "minor".
So, I ignore the "minor change" indication on recent changes and elsewhere (though I do try to mark my edits appropriately). The feature could disappear entirely, and I'd only be pleased.
Rich Holton (a.k.a. Anthropos)
--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Carl Witty proposes a feature enhancement:
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:26, Elly Waterman wrote:
Indeed, and in addition, I like to switch off
the Minor Changes to
watch only for the Bigger Changes, by regular
users and ALL CHANGES by
anonymous users, among which unluckily are some
vandals. If vandals
can in some way click this nonexisting box, they
can do their hobby
unnoticed, at least by me, and other sysops who
work in this way.
If people don't like removing the "minor edit" box
for anonymous users,
how about this?
- Put the "minor edit" box back
- Have 3 states for "Recent Changes": show all
edits, hide minor
changes, hide minor changes from logged-in
users
This should satisfy everybody at (I assume) a
fairly small cost in
software effort.
(I actually like not having the "minor edit" box
as an anonymous user;
it helps me remember to log in!)
Let's hear some "me too" and/or "no way" posts on this one!
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