User blog:Roads/Get Used to One-Talk Page Conversations

The standard of this wiki and several others is to respond to a talk page message on the sender's talk page. But that's not the normal standard. Normally, conversations stay on one talk page, and replies are indented until they can't be pushed any farther to the right. For example, the first reply has a colon before each paragraph of the message. The second reply has two, the third has three, and so on. Example:

Original message. ~

~

~



Get it? In other words:

Original message. ~


 * First reply. ~


 * Second reply. ~



Unfortunately, there is no way to get a notification that your message was replied to. This is one of the (few) advantages to the Message Wall, Wikia's new (ahem) "improvement" to talk pages. This allows easy replies in this way, with no indent coding, and even gives you notifications. The "You have new messages" notification is replaced with a small icon next to your username at the top right of the screen. (You will sill get notifications to other-wiki messages.)

So get used to it. I'm considering making it mandatory. From now on, always expect me to reply on my own talk page instead of yours.

Roadster (Let's talk.) 12:02, November 3, 2011 (UTC)