User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-26333886-20110926201648/@comment-65179-20110927005829

Your wiki must not have the problem mine has, SpikeToronto: Of users responding to you on their own talk page. No matter how many times you tell them that it's customary to reply via the talk page of the person they wish to reach.

When everyone is doing what they're supposed to be doing (IE: in the perfect world) the email talk page notifications work great. But when you've got a stubborn newblet who you're trying to set right... Well.. Changing places to respond to a message is not the most intuitive action for younger people who're from a culture where "get out another sheet of paper and write a response letter" (I may have just dated myself! Curses!) or "hitting reply and writing your reply to an email in a completely new box" are not intuitive choices.

I personally don't like having to watch another person's talk page to know when they're talking to me. I get all of the other notifications for their conversations, of which I wish to take no part.