Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-1764483-20160131204339/@comment-25648422-20160201173050

Brainulator9 wrote: Cavia porcellus told me on chat (private message) in response to Someone456's "Be grateful guys, we would be using message walls and receiving more notification if this rule didn't exist...": "I think having Message Walls and the old forum would be much better than the current state. Also, there isn't anything extraordinarily different between Message Walls and talk pages... I mean, we already switched to the new forums." Some food for thought. Now, let's focus on these points, shall we?
 * Why don't you like message walls? A crapton of notifications? Boo-hoo, people are messaging you. Get over it. Lack of historical context? The old messages will actually be archived, and message walls would better organize conversations.
 * "It hasn't happened, so it will happen!" Yeah, nice try. Also, by saying insurance (Progressive parties?), did you mean "ensurance?"
 * Majority wins. What's your point?
 * There a lot of reasons why message walls are not enabled in numerous wikis:
 * 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.