User blog comment:Jenburton/An Update on Message Wall/@comment-3300998-20111002060527/@comment-10532749-20111007220727

What I meant is that original poster did not mention anything about Message Wall, just his dislike of Wikia decisions in general and how it is the same as changing to Oasis (at least that's how I read it).

Because it's something that just affects *visual* side of site it safe for the two to coexist. The same cannot be said about User Talk pages and Message Wall if the problem we are trying to solve is *NOT* forcing people to learn all the quirks of using User Talk page.

Since the original poster did not state anything Message Wall specific it does not matter if it's optional or not with relation to my own comment. (I did however try to explain why it shouldn't be optional in the above paragraph).