User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1922674-20110926200009/@comment-1724320-20110926234339

'The need to make sure vandals can't wipe their own talk pages' is nonexistent. Any wiki that can handle countervandalism in mainspace can handle the rare occurrence of someone trying to blank their talk pages -- we do it with actual talk pages, and we will be able to do it with this new system.

How can you not be sure if anons will get notifications? I understand that it's not coded yet, but what possible advantages are there to keeping them in the dark? It's something that absolutely needs to be fixed before this becomes (gulp) mandatory, because if it's not we will see twice as much vandalism.