User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-65179-20110926185407/@comment-65179-20110926192901

We have a massive problem with users only around for the talk page. It'd be awesome if we could get a ban feature for /just/ these new message walls. So that abusive-with-talk users could be forced to cease-and-desist without eliminating their ability to make contributive edits.

I admit this will be a good change as far as helping newbies get involved, but I'm fearful that at our wiki it'll lead to a massive increase in editing amongst the "we're just here to chat" crowd. For some reason no amount of "not every site is for every person, please go find a site that already is what you want instead of trying to change this one" seems to have an effect. We need tools that help the places that are still trying to be encyclopedias instead of social networks, too.