I do agree with reduction of knobs.
Looking at the problem space on meta:
Discourse Meta (link will be broken to non discourse staff)
People like Jeff and myself don’t even have any wiki topics we are watching where we are not the OP.
I wonder if we just make a global knob here and experiment with that first, cause that is a trivial 20 minute job.
notify_op_wiki_watchers_on_edit, then if that is on we globally notify watchers of topics with “wiki”.
Then we can see if @cpradio and @Mittineague completely freak out here or not (they watch a lot of stuff).
Maybe we are thinking about this the wrong way and it is a user pref? Maybe turning this on globally will be a complete non event and users will love it.
Kind of against making this a per-topic option the more I think about it unless it changes the way topics work and posts things. Cause this means “how watch works” depends on hidden state, I really dislike that. (globally or per-user can work cause every user has consistent experience)
Also, there is a reasonably strong argument that the “discussion about a wiki” is less important than “the wiki itself”, so if anything we are notifying on the less important stuff now.