User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-1025281-20110928124310/@comment-47881-20110928130433

You are oversimplifying the issue. If this Message Wall is going to work like its Facebook namesake then it will certainly hinder navigation. MediaWiki, primitive as it may be, makes talk pages much easier to navigate through and find threads/posts.

The problem with flashy signatures or lack thereof is not going away because there are still venues in which people must communicate like in talk pages: the Project pages. So the only thing this feature will do is making it easier for "those who don't understand Talk pages" to spam them with greater ease. Maybe the primitiveness of MediaWiki had the beneficial effect of hindering such incursions.