User blog comment:NeonSpotlight/Where did comments go?/@comment-1694864-20120808212338

Some of my thoughts as to why talk is preferable to comments. --BryghtShadow 21:23, August 8, 2012 (UTC)
 * Editors become more acquainted with the wiki syntax (for simple posts, it's really not that difficult). Help pages and community, that's what they are there for. By getting used to the wiki syntax, edits to actual articles should become less error prone.
 * New pages aren't created for every new comment. Not sure if editors who prefer or are used to comments are aware of this.
 * Talk pages can easily be organised by custom rules (by topic, by time, by frequency of appearance) and even archived -- comments are left with parent nodes, which have child nodes sorted by time. We are left to the simple but restrictive system of Wikia's code.
 * Talk pages allow previewing of messages before posting -- comments only have submit. Previewing before submitting generally reduces the number of revisions a page goes through (often minor edits of "I wasn't aware that it would end up looking like this").
 * Comments can be just as malicious as messages on talk pages. The only difference being the inability for users with lesser editing rights to modify your comments.
 * Looking at a particular comment "how i make questions with no comms?", this is what can happen when a wiki ends up with blog-like comments system.
 * Talk pages require manually signing posts -- comments automatically do it for you. This promotes laziness.