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

Since there are appears to be more Contributors occasionally showing up, some that don't know how to use the user Talk page. I was thinking about turning on the Message Wall.


 * How does it it work? - Similar to the Forums. A thread is created and whatever the subject the comments can be placed under it every time.
 * - You can close a thread; unfollow; remove, edit etc.

Pros
 * - Being alerted.
 * - Able to carry on a discussion in one area of said Users wall.
 * - Discussions are easy to spot and are sorted in ascending order. So new threads are always first.
 * - Everything is dated, signed, and quotable. (IPs are revealed)
 * - Long discussions will collapse under a "view replies" banner.
 * - Pagenation when the Wall gets too long; basically it automatically archives.
 * - It can take HTML, so if you have a fancy signature you want to use then you can.

Cons
 * - Can be a cause of spam depending on how active a community is.
 * - - I'm a part-time admin on the Adventure Time wiki and there are particular users who can go overboard with it, even just posting emotes to each other. This clogs up the RC thus making the feature (and reason for being on a wiki) pointless.
 * - It is easily abused by malicious IP visitors. While threads can be deleted, there are some faults with the feature that make deleted content visible.
 * - Besides your Message Wall top message, it is rather plain when it comes to customizing. And not every can figure out how to create a top message, though I can help.
 * - Requires java, so if you have to been wondering the wiki with minimal features you notice you can't do much with features such as Comments, Forum, and Tabs etc.
 * - If you don't mind the Notifications lighting up occasionally.

My primary concern is spam and me being too stubborn to use it much. There are times when I won't always be online. However, I am aware that contributors who are not into 'wiki editing' as much- do enjoy using it out of convenience.

Turn on Message Wall? Yay Nay  