I am re-creating my issue because my last one (JRA-14568) I think was erroneously closed by Atlassian as a duplicate and I don't see any way for me to re-open the previous one.

I would like it if we had an option in our profiles to specify that I automatically want to Watch any issue that I vote for, edit, report, or post a comment on.

I don't believe this is a duplicate. The other issue (JRA-5976) seems to be talking about an option to impose a policy that automatically enforces Watching on various kinds of participants.

What I'm asking for is the kind of thing that any average wiki user (go check out Wikipedia) can do in their own profile, and this is to decide for THEMSELVES what level of "automatic spam" they want from the system. They get to check-off, on their OWN profile whether or not they want to auto-watch items they have voted for, edited, reported, or posted a comment on.