Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-1764483-20160131204339/@comment-1764483-20160201181133

Pinkgirl234 wrote: There a lot of reasons why message walls are not enabled on numerous wikis: It's amazing how most of your points are easily debunked by the "it's not exclusive to that" argument.
 * Old messages are often prone to necroposting. There are people who are likely to respond to really really old messages. And necroposting is literally 99% annoying. I mean what's the whole darn point of responding to old messages when they have already been answered or are meant to not be answered?
 * Most people prefer the same talk page feature. There are wikis who are used to talk pages for a long time that people believe that message walls are not needed.
 * There are chances are that message walls can be abused for spam. One user showed a screenshot of receiving 70+ notifications in a blog that he wrote in another wiki once. I believe those notifications come from messages that a certain user is sending to him repeatedly. Man, that blew my mind that time.
 * Message walls are additionally prone to be served as a dumplace for nonsense messages. There are cases that people will simply dump nonsense/annoying/bothersome messages on your message wall in a "Cuz why the heck not?" attitude.
 * Same with forum posts, blog posts, article comments, talk pages, et cetera.
 * Nostalgiatards? Think Guptill89. [[File:Oh.gif]]
 * You can block those people or warn them. Also, this can happen with normal talk pages as well. The same goes for your next point.