Board Thread:Administrator's noticeboard/@comment-9713132-20121012115558/@comment-1694864-20121014072435

Why don't we use the talk page? Why do we use the talk page? Correct me if I'm mistaken but all the outrage I'm seeing about "OMG NO COMMENT I'M QUITTING WIKI!11!!!11" seems to be from a fear not being able to express their voice whatsoever. That's what a talk page is for!

I want the talk pages to be exclusively used for discussing the page content. If they wish to discuss strategies, either the forum or the /Strategy talk page. This is purely from a maintenance standpoint. Way too many FAQs I've seen that gets buried by comment pages.

Arj said "because comments allow for smoother transition between page and comment". But I wish to argue against that and say that the brief time it takes to open up the talk page should allow them to think about what they're going to write. The ability of talk pages to be organised better (FAQs, hint hint), moderated easier, archived... considering the talk page feature has been built into MediaWiki software for longer than comments.

"Technology Wizard wrote: Per Neon's last comment. The wiki is based on it's content and it's content only. Comments are there, it was decided that they stay there. If there are certain things that are inapprorpiate, the best thing to do is to ignore them, I mean we aren't forced to reply or look at anyone's harsh comments. We have plenty of moderators now to moderate them, and the unseen comments can always be reported." Slightly confusing on your stance here: Do or don't you consider "Comments" to be a wikia's content? Would or wouldn't you consider a discussion about the page to be "content"? Because if comments are not content and a wiki is based on its contents only, then we are safe to completely disable discussion whatsoever?

"NeonSpotlight wrote: At the end of the day I wouldn't want to see comments go completely." Would you still be happy if talk pages were utilised as they are supposed to?