User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-3279487-20111008204507/@comment-2217546-20111010024941

Within this intial span of comments, beginning with Leviathan 89's proposal to make it optional, I believe there are a few valid ideas. However, I'd like to address a few things, in a calm manner. Lancer, your idea to add another use space tab is priceless, and I also had that notion. My only regret towards the said idea, it will undoubtedly confuse new contributors, or anyone for that matter. As I took deep thought in the idea, I realized that it would just be excessively confusing. For one, technical, and more important messages are liable to become cluttered throughout this so called, "Wall", with simple greeting messages. Also, as The 888th Avatar stated, What difference is there between technical messages and a mere salutation? As far as I know, no computer processor I've ever owned could identify the alteration between two different messages.

Now to address Leviathan 89's idea of releasing this feature on an optional note, which, not to be offensive, I do not believe would succeed. This would double the amount of confusion, as many contributors on Wikia contribute between multiple communities. Now, I know that several features, such as badges and article comments, to name a few, are optional. One outstanding difference is that radical degree of a Talk Page, which isn't as much of a feature as it is a necessity. It is something everyone uses, and it is positively inavoidable when running a community. This Message Wall as an optional feature would only create more confusion, and isn't one of the goals of this Wall to eliminate confusion to some degree?

I apologize for the length of this response, but on an issue this radical, it wasn't something of which I could simply limit my input. Thanks, Annawantimes.