User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-3279487-20111008204507/@comment-737801-20111009014829

Or better yet, if they insist in pushing it, and we all know they will, why not do something to make both sides happy. Since you said you don't have the time to look through all the comments, then I'll repeat what has been proposed more than a few times.

Make the message wall another part of the user space, and still have regular talk pages, rather than replacing them. That way, the message wall can be used for what it will more than likely be used for, a.k.a. "hi how are you today", and let the talk page be for wiki business, a.k.a. "Why did you revert my edit on (insert article name here)". The formatting of the wall pushes one side of this, and completely neglects the other. I'll leave it up to you which is which.