Amir E. Aharoni, 15/09/2014 14:25:
Seeing notifications about articles in the same watchlist with these notifications is already an issue.
There's a namespace selector. I select ns0 + talk when I'm in editing mode and invert that when I'm not.
Seeing only the last "support" or "oppose" notification, and having to go to the page to see the current state of affairs (yes, I know it's not a vote).
You can load the last revision of the page via RSS/Atom, if that's what you want.
The alternative would be to set watchlist to show all changes and not just the last one, but then it would show one row per change or a group of rows per page, and that would make it even more cluttered.
That never looked cluttered to me. :)
Seeing the adding of new pages, archival of old discussions and discussions of pages in the same way. Archival I don't want to see at all.
Use a bot, ask them to mark edits minor?
The action of adding a page and making a comment about a page should look different, but in the current watchlist they are the same.
Subpagination does help with this because you can filter new page creations. All the problems you mentioned I consider solved since about 2006 on it.wiki, modernise your practices. ;)
Nemo