Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-3186827-20140708103950/@comment-1251315-20140708105533

When you reply on someone else's talkpage, they'll get a notification in the bottom right that they have "new messages". If someone asks me a question, I will always reply to their talkpage, not my own. If users start responding on the asker's talkpage, that user will get barraged with notifications that could potentially make it impossible for them to actually do any editing.