Why can't we have a user preference that says "Hide my watchlist from other users"? Then, on the "Who's watching this page?" page, there would be a note to the effect that there are X additional users that are watching the page, but whom do not want to be identified. This seems like a balanced solution to me -- users who value their privacy could choose not to be identified, but the useful statistic of how many people there are that are watching the page would still be available.
Just a thought :-)
-- Benjamin D. Esham
OK, but the default preference should be to keep it private by default, and the new feature would mainly be used just to see how many people are watching it. LDan
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