Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-26407541-20150710132516/@comment-24258073-20160408081148

I prefer talk pages because you have more control over what goes and what stays on your talk page. If a user leaves you a message in bad faith, you can remove them from your talk page, and only have to see them in the past revisions of your talk page. I find removing messages, leaving messages, and editing messages easier with the message walls disabled. I prefer archiving messages, and receiving notifications from the "You have new messages" link feature, than I do from the bell icon on the Wikia menu bar.