Can't say I would be overly worked up over the naming of it. Following sounds more appropriate where the object is a user and watching moreso where the object is a (sub)thread, so either is fine for the general case.

As a hippo I'm in favour of combining watching and following so that we end up with wallowing. That sounds ideal. :-D

OK. I have changed the verbiage on user homenodes only to 'Follow'/'Unfollow'. And I have moved that link to the 'For this user:' list of links. So you'll see it right after 'Search nodes'.

Considering features prefer consistency, confusion reduction and short ways.

The page to check is called My *Watched* Nodes so newbies need to associate "watch" with "follow".

On another note:

It's also confusing me that

• watches list the actual node prior to context
• reply notifications list context prior to actual node

[ ] root says jdporter posted Re^3: New Feature: Thread Watcher - Shou
+ld we call it 'follow' instead? > New Feature: Thread Watcher

[ ] root says You've got a reply to Re: Why is Dumper returning "!!1" 
+for true file test? from XXX at Re^2: Why is Dumper returning "!!1" f
+or true file test?
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Other features I'd like is an option to shorten the messages from redundancy

That is applying a regex to shorten the context node

[ ] root says You've got a reply to "Re: ..." from XXX at Re^2: Why is
+ Dumper returning "!!1" for true file test?
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Cheers Rolf
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