User blog comment:Dopp/Communicate Easily with Message Wall/@comment-2179868-20111007214605/@comment-957747-20111008002829

Piotr, it's fundamental. Everything has a learning curve. This Message Wall feature is catering to people that have never learned how to properly edit talk pages to make it easier for them while at the same time forcing a learning curve on all the rest of the community that has been editing for years. The process isn't broken. The only thing broken is the lack of 'teaching' users the proper way to do things. There are a million and one examples I can give to showcase this, but the bike illustration works so I won't come up with another one.

In Talk pages,a single indent specifies who you're responding too. Example below...

Hey Bob, how are you today? Joe 00:28, October 8, 2011 (UTC) Not bad? Have you heard from Tim? Bob 00:28, October 8, 2011 (UTC) Not lately. Have you heard from Wendy? Joe 00:30, October 8, 2011 (UTC) Sorry, I was at school. Wendy 00:28, October 8, 2011 (UTC) I'm right here, Bob! Tim 00:28, October 8, 2011 (UTC) Ahh, glad you joined us! Bob 00:28, October 8, 2011 (UTC)

If you really wanted to link a certain position on the talk page, enclose that excerpt with a span ID and link that ID.

Making things easier is fine, but completely changing everything people have used for years just to simply not have to teach new users proper etiquette is not.