User blog comment:Jenburton/Coming Soon: Message Wall in Labs/@comment-737801-20111024221751/@comment-1025281-20111024224922

Most of the talk page messages I get left are already what you would call "short messages". I fail to see how the Message Wall could arbitrarily change that paradigm. "Professional" and "unprofessional" is a highly subjective argument. I personally find talk pages messy, and I have a distaste for highly graphic signatures.

Message Wall is far from perfect. Its automatic pagination and threading system are problems. But I cannot agree with the point of view that talk pages are an inherently superior system for a content site that must be preserved at all costs.