I'm pretty sure that somewhere on the bottom parts of his To-Do list, Bara has an item along the lines of "Create a Watched Posts tab" that would effectively replace the old Watch This Post function.
Instead of getting mail every time a reply came to a thread you wanted to follow but not join, you'd be able to see the activity on a page similar to My Replies and My Posts.
I really wanted the email back for a long while, but Bara's idea for a page-based replacement has steadily grown on me and the outrageous flurry of activity spawned by Brad's 'internal debates made external' post has sold me on it. Under the old system, I'd have had *hundreds* pieces of mail to delete.
