User blog comment:Jenburton/Coming Soon: Message Wall in Labs/@comment-168424-20111027005046

Just to prevent the rewriting of history: Wikia said Message Wall was going to be mandatory when it was initially announced.

I'm glad that Message Wall might be optional, but I suspect the reason to make it mandatory was not for the good of users, but for reasons of expected technical limitations (which probably still exist). A little honesty would go a long way to rebuilding trust with the community rather than flimsy marketing double-speak. Not all of us "just fell off the turnip truck", to use an old phrase.