I can't tell who wrote this, but am compelled to reply.
| |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. |
My own practice is to hide punctuation, spelling, linking changes unless I want to engage in the minor publicity of putting an article in Recent Changes so that others will know it exists and perhaps add to it themselves.
Your not hiding minor edits might be a big deal to *others* if you clutter the Recent Changes with all *your* precious apostrophes and spelling corrections.
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.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88