User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-1724320-20110930220758

Thank you for listening to the feedback and realizing that staff-protection is a bad idea. There are some other things that need to be adjusted and hopefully you will figure that out before this goes public everywhere.

Beyond that, I am having a hard time understanding why article comments are optional and this is not. Please don't tell me that this is different than article comments--I know that, and it isn't what this is about. Both article comments and the Message Wall are replacements for major features on Wikia, article talk and user talk respectively. They're structurally similar, at least from my understanding. The reason that Message Wall is going to be mandatory is that you want consistency across Wikia. I get that, but if that's the goal, why aren't article comments mandatory. It's a discrepancy that I don't really get, and I would appreciate some clarification on it.