User blog comment:Dopp/Upcoming change: Removing the divider between the Edit button and Content/@comment-1169889-20110505051143/@comment-1169889-20110505132654

Yes, I know about the watchlist and I have also deactivated from my preferences the default ticked box "Follow this page" when you edit a page. What you fail to understand is that most of the people who actually support the removal of the divider are admins, founders and power users who come here everyday and spend a good amount of time around, and to them it's a better way to make a watchlist or to follow the recent changes page. The "last edited by... X time ago " was useful for the average users who don't have that much free time to spend here and don't want to maintain a watchlist or scroll through hundreds of recent changes.

I don't go page by page to check for edits, I only keep 3-5 pages (that I'm interested in at some time) opened in my browser. And it can be the same pages for just a couple of days or maybe a week or two, it really depends on my free time or interests. I might go, just as well, to read a random page and if I see that it was last edited by an anon user or an user that I know he is doing doubtful edits, I might then check if something was screwed up.

Also, nobody has provided any good reason for removing it, besides that not so concludent A/B testing on a SMALL percentage of anons. If it really interferes with the new changes, then they should implement a similar feature.