The issue with minor edits isn't just the question of having noise in the WHAT'S NEW signal, but also that I'd rather not have every last little action I take put front and center? I don't necessarily want rough drafts of things put in everyone's face before I'm ready to put them there myself - nor articles that I work on piecemeal over the course of months with hundreds of little edits (this being my most usual mode of work).

Not to mention if I fix an embarrassing freudian typo I'd made somewhere, it's because I don't want it seen, not because I do!