User blog comment:Arcaedia/Enabling Article Comments/@comment-3418306-20150901094910

So, I seem to remember you bringing this up with me, saying I should write a more thorough explanation in this blog ...and then I forgot about the blog - so, sorry for that. But, now that I've found it again, I'll give my pitch another shot...

When I first started out with wikia, I didn't like talk pages much, but after several years I've come to appreciate them more than just about any other personal correspondance. The updated comment sections on user talk pages might be a close second (and possibly preferred in some cases), but I must admit that I hate the comment sections of article pages. As ResistanZ said, they add a lot of fluff, very little content, and most of the comments aren't particularly relative, informative, or helpful/current.

Want a good alternative to an overburdened talk page or fluffy comment section? - the best I've seen is on the Elder Scrolls wiki; integrated forum discussions (Ex: Lycanthropy ). This makes the forum much more useful, while keeping common discussion off the talk page and more relevant to related articles. The best advantage is that you can tag specific pages ...so if you're wanting to ask about a specific item in a specific area owned by a specific group, you can tag each of those articles and the same linked discussion will show up under each. Meanwhile, it's concise, compact, and maintained through the forum.

No worries if y'all don't want to implement that specifically, but I'd have to admit I still don't like the regular article comment sections much... Imho, talk pages are better, as long as people understand how to use them - i.e. the tilde - and what their purpose is.