Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-26407541-20150710132516/@comment-5558012-20160428191333

One of the problems with talk pages is page history. You could have five conversations going on at the same time only for all activity be recorded on a single history page. Less than ideal if you are concerned with the actions of a single lengthy conversation. Diffs and logs are conveniently in one location for each thread in the message wall. Much more useful.

Message walls give the option of displaying history two ways: per thread or per wall. I have 16 pages of message wall comments, yet only five when using the wall history (showing creating, removing, and restoring threads). New threads are bolded on the history page for very quick viewing (40 to 50 conversations on a page, similar to what you might have on a talk archive page, but with more information, especially combined with individual thread histories, at less clicking/head scratching than a talk page could provide - made worse for those users who fall to use descriptive edit summaries).

As message wall conversations can get length, so can those on talk pages. The quote feature makes up for the singular method of comment flow if users use it correctly (a quote of a quote of a quote is annoying any day). Overall there are more non-opinionated benefits to using message walls versus user talk pages.


 * "you can't fix typos in messages made by others even if you're registered"

Personally I'm against editing other's posts. We are not grammar instructors so we shouldn't act that way in general conversation. On articles, go for it.