User blog comment:Dopp/Giving User Profiles Some Love/@comment-1091639-20110707111923/@comment-1091639-20110708112209

For me, then best idea would be if admins were allowed, via Wikia Labs, to decide which namespaces on the wiki should have comments enabled.

I know that there are no talk pages in the blog namespace, but the point I was trying to make is that I doubt a talk page would generate as much feedback as this comment section does.

I agree with you on the drawbacks the comments sections have. That's why I put emphasis on them being optional - they should only be enabled on wikis/namespaces, where their simplicity to functionality ratio surpasses that of user talk pages. Example - look at my talk page archive here. None of the threads regard the same subject and they usually have no more than 5 responses, so the threaded topics point is invalid. None of them use sophisticated wikicode, so the functionality drawbacks point is invalid. However, with them in comments I wouldn't need to organize the page: no archive subpages, no replacement headings due to message authors' lack of doing so, no need to use the unsigned template, no need to organize the threads with ":" to put some order into it. I assume it would also encourage more users to report issues with the wiki.

I assume it would be possible for a user to moderate the comments on his user page, to avoid insults, spam and vandalism.