Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25258875-20141001110526/@comment-4189499-20141001112855

One of the major problems with comments is that you can't follow them to get replies. You can, however, follow a talk page so you always know if anybody has said something new on a topic you're interested in. Also, talk pages are better for editing type discussions, as they're "hidden" on a separate page, as opposed to comments which tend to get filled with people discussing the topic itself rather than the page. Finally, talk pages allow for reasonably linear discussions, making them easier to follow whereas a bunch of different threads tend to come up with comments, all put in the wrong order, and then you get people posing new comments instead of replies to old comments. Also, you can't preview comments to make sure they're written correctly, which you can do with talk pages. This is more of a problem for people who like editing in source mode, but all the same it can be easier to proofread a message in a preview window, like how many people prefer proofreading documents after printing them out rather than in Word or whatever. In conclusion, I go for talk pages.