User blog comment:ThatDevilGuy/Message Wall Final Vote/@comment-3534843-20120211060719

Alright, here comes a rant valid argument :

The Message wall is a counterintuitive system that encourages bad habits. First of all, they encourage disorganized discussion threads, rather that page-to-page replies. If you contact someone about something, rather than reply to you on your page, the system encourages you to reply on your own page in a blog-like style. Although one may argue that this is more organized, I find that it is not. If one wishes to reference a previous message, he or she will find it difficult. Rather than list messages in chronological order like the talk page, the message wall lists replies in a somewhat counterintuitive jumble.

Secondly, several default features are downright annoying. For example, you must disable the message wall in order to prevent it from spamming up your email with notifications. Also, as Varkanax points out, the "monikers" lead to unnecessary confusion.

Lastly, it is too blog-like. There is a psychological thing I have noticed with these "blog formatted" comment boxes, they encourage short answers with fragmented spelling and grammar. We are not face book. We are not twitter. We are not a social network. Writing for this wiki has actually improved my performance in English class. We should all strive to improve the quality of our literacy in this age of instant messages, and this blog-like message wall downright discourages it. People see the blog and think "Oh, I can just speak in acronyms. This must be a social network."

Our old message system was adequate. We should be striving to enforce the MoS, not improve the quality of messaging. It isn't even an improvement; as I have said before, why take an adequate system, we have grown acquainted with, and replace it with an unfamiliar, counterintuitive system. We are wiki, not, I repeat, NOT a social network.

Thank you for taking the time to read.