User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-4491280-20110930171142

I hope it's not optional. The talk page experience on wikis has always been a mess. People never know when to indent for a reply, how much to indent, whether or not to use bullets, where on the page they start a new topic (the top or bottom?), and MOST IMPORTANTLY don't always sign their posts (or when they do, they have annoying signatures).

Every wiki has their own way of doing talk pages. In some cases, admins and contributors do the cleanup, but that's a waste of time.

If the same format was being used on every wiki, it would relieve these headaches and we could all get on with editing our wikis. I can't wait for this to go live!