Add "watched items" to the description of js.user.email_direct

In the prefs, js.user.email_direct is currently described as:

Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, or invites me to a topic

While it would be nice to simplify to just, “send me notification emails”, this setting doesn’t cover all emails (there’s a separate setting for emails about private messages), and not all notifications are emailed (notifications of likes never go out by email).

As long as it’s a list of cases, it should be thorough. The description above implies that js.user.email_direct only affects the listed items, but it also affects emails for watched items.

So, I propose the description be changed to something like:

Send me an email when someone quotes me, replies to my post, mentions my @username, invites me to a topic, or posts somewhere I’m watching (including watched categories, tags, or topics).

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No, we won’t be making that change.

We have no evidence that anyone is confused by this such that more verbosity is needed. Extra verbosity for the sake of verbosity isn’t desirable.

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