User blog comment:Perchan/Gee Whiz/@comment-4666155-20160201030705

Beyond their horrible aesthetics, you more or less summed up my problems with talk pages already. They work like a thread does, and there's no privacy to the discussion. When it came to a talk page, people didn't typically visit other people's talk pages at random when they saw the posts in the feed, so there'd be less altercations. With message walls, it displays on the recent activity, and more annoying, I kept getting notices from a message wall thread on Ash's talk page in my e-mails that I wasn't even participating in, I still have no idea what that was about, but I don't need a fanon wiki blowing up my e-mail.

And while your idea of "let's make it so there's a rule that you keep the discussions on message walls to the people they involve", not everyone is going to see that, no matter how or where you announce it; people miss announcements, people miss blogs, and our experiences with all the n00bs are proof that no new users bother to read the rules (that are conveniently linked onto their talk pages which I assume is now just....not present with these message walls, good job on that too). So these will be a problem no matter what measures you actually bother to take. But, you didn't listen to me the first time, so hey.