While your proposal would give authors a way to mark major updates, I don't think they would solve the communication problem, for two reasons:

• The user may not want to use special tags: some people have enough trouble just mastering paragraph and code tags. The net result is that many significant updates, especially by beginners, will not get marked.
• I don't generally go back and read threads until a new node is posted on the thread, so I may never be on the thread to see the specially highlighted update.

What would help me would be a node equivalent to what we have now for major and minor updates to user pages:

• an easy way for the author to self-nominate their change as a 'significant change', for example, by having an update and major update buttons (instead of the one button that now exists).
• an option to see major updates flagged on either (or both) "Newest nodes" or "Recent Threads".

Best, beth

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