Ortolan88 wrote in part:
Toby Bartels wrote:
I never hide minor edits, so it's not a big deal to *me*. However, I gather that this would be helpful to other people.
And Ortolan seems to have misinterpreted "hide".
Hiding minor edits is something that the *reader* does. It's an option in user preference to hide from lists of edits (like Recentchanges and watchlists) those edits that were marked minor. I myself never do this; when I view Recentchanges, I see every single edit, since that's what I want to see.
OTOH, what the writer does is to *mark* minor edits. I always mark punctuation, spelling, and linking changes in this way (regardless of whether I'm interested in publicity). Nobody will see my apostrophes and spelling corrections if they, as readers, hide minor edits in their user preferences. (There are exceptions where I forget, but these are simply mistakes.)
Some thoughtless people (readers of this list, I believe) are even putting moves from a private chess game into Recent Changes for reasons unfathomable to polite people.
Everything goes into Recentchanges, every edit whatsoever. What you mean is that these thoughtless (I agree) people aren't marking the moves as minor edits. If they did so, then people who (like you) hide minor edits wouldn't see the game show up in Recentchanges, although people who (like me) don't hide minor edits would continue to see it (a risk that we choose to take).
I hope that this clarifies my language.
-- Toby