Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35301431-20140705005820/@comment-53539-20140707064747

Chevsapher wrote: Spammers already spam talk pages....

Anyway, I like the message wall because it's easier to understand, especially for new users. It requires virtually no knowledge of wiki markup and it's formatted for easier reading than traditional talk pages allow. Spammers will spam anything, so its hardly worth even mentioning spam in this. As Chev said, they already do it now.

I have never found the message wall system "easier to use", and you don't need to know wiki coding, just "edit" will take you to the section. No offence Chev, but I don't see this as a issue, since even if you don't know how to put " ==== Heradlines=== " or ":" or even how to sign a post. I'm not stupid, but I've never gotten on with the message wall system and don't like it at all, so this "easier to use" remains nothing but an situation thing.

Meanwhile, message walls make the process quicker to send messages from one person to another, but lead to a heap of mess, making them harder to sort, read, etc later on. In short, they are nothing but a short term reliability and are a long-term nightmare.