User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1351982-20110926205824/@comment-3388044-20110927101752

“We also agree that the goal at Wikia is to create great wikis — we just believe that good communication tools are part of building that culture.” Wow! Does that generate a lot of questions/comments:
 * 1) Who is the we in “We also agree … ”? It certainly is not the vast majority of people posting here.
 * 2) “ … good communication tools are part of building that culture.” How on earth — without Message Walls — did editors manage to not only build Wikipedia, the world’s largest and most successful wiki, but in so doing define the very culture to which you refer? Somehow they did it without “good communication tools”, given that they only had archaic talkpages and not Message Walls. Imagine that!
 * 3) “ … good communication tools are part of building that culture.” This is, without doubt, not as good a communication tool as talkpages, so how is it going to facilitate the building of wikis? There’s not even the simplest, crudest, most basic form of indexing or tabling of threads to facilitate communication. How can anyone find anything? How do you Dopp find that one particular thread you’re looking for in this blog’s mass of comments? One simply cannot. And, it will not be any easier on ArticleComments version 2 (aka, Message Walls). How does such a chaotic mess foster the collaborative, collegial environment that the “wiki culture” requires?