Board Thread:Administrator's noticeboard/@comment-4652200-20121130231836/@comment-3974211-20121231160231

I feel alienated on Wikias without comments enabled. Talk pages look so unruly. Talk pages also have a burden of knowledge on "readers" that is unnecessary - which from my experience comes hand-in-hand with my opinion on them looking unruly. There is no automatic formatting, titles, signatures, etc. You rely on the "readers" to indent, to ~sign their comments, to know that "==" makes a title (necessary for separating discussion points), etc. I've been scaled first hand for all of the above - but no-one reads the manual.

Editing should be for editors.

Also, I'd just like to point out that the comments section is thematically no different to this forum, except that it has an implied/explicit topic and is easily available and accessible. This discussion could easily be happening on an article - and I've seen such discussions.