Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25258875-20141001110526/@comment-3026053-20141001114428

True, you can't get notification with comments, but if it's random chatter about the page's subject -thus not a discussion of importance- comments are easier for the non-seasoned wikian, since a lot of inexperienced users have trouble with signatures and proper indentation etc. And in the case that the goal is to merely offer an easy forum to converse with one another, comments are better suited than talk pages. However, as noted before, when you want to discuss something of importance, talk pages are more suited as they, besides all the benefits already pointed out, also allow for easier structurization by allowing to add titles and whatnot.