Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3186827-20140708103950/@comment-3186821-20140711214702

SuperSajuuk wrote: Kennyannydenny wrote: SuperSajuuk wrote: Kennyannydenny wrote: It being used all the time on Wikipedia, it works a lot better than having to switch between talk pages. especially taking into account that you will not get a notification if you do it the way being proposed by Jimeee.

Thats also not true. If you follow the talk page where you posted your comment you can always see when you get a response. And when you're done with the conversation, you can just unfollow the page again. Its that simple. I, just like my colleagues, have done it that way six years now on Wikipedia and never had a single problem with it. You see all messages of the conversation on one page, keeping an overview of the conversation, and through following the talk page, you will always see it when you get a response from the other person. Like i said, simple and quick. Except, you forget that the ONLY way to get a notification via that method is by emails. There are 3 main reasons as to why this whole consensus won't work: The way being proposed is inherently flawed and liable for a lot of missed messages due to lack of notifications and also does not work for anonymous editors. The majority of users are more likely to pay attention to a notification at the bottom right than an email notification. I see you editted your message...
 * 1) You do realise not everyone wants their email inboxes spammed with notifications like that, when they can just do it the way I proposed, which means that users don't need emails?
 * 2) You also do realise that anonymous editors are NOT able to get email notifications and must rely on users responding to their talkpage to be aware of any replies to their questions?
 * 3) Are you also aware that 90% of users who sign up to websites use an email account that they are never going to look at?

No thats not the only way. There is no need for e-mails. If you follow a page it shows up in Special:WikiActivity. There you can easily see who was the last editor of your followed pages and when was it last editted. A very easy way to keep track of your conversations. I always use the WikiActivity to keep track of edits on pages i created to easily spot any vandalism did to them and it can just as easily be used for keeping track of conversations. I don't see whats the difficulty to that.

You're shouting a lot, but not all of it makes sense and you didn't even look at all options. Please considers everything before calling anything "inherently flawed", we're not politicians.