User blog comment:RePeat/Community Poll on Message Walls/@comment-7855039-20130627034219/@comment-4845243-20130627042123

@"@Admins”: Agreed. We do have better things to do. But I'll respond since something was directly said to me here.

@"@Everyone": by "Wiki History" do you mean Wiki Activity? As Seaside and I recently demonstrated, talk page conversations can be instantly accessed through Wiki Activity by clicking the diffs. Non-editors may not understand this, but "conversation stalkers" (a group you displayed concern over) certainly do. It is so easy to read talk page messages it isn't funny— there is no difference between TPs and MWs when it comes to conversation stalkers.

@"@Obi": Hello. I was going to be complained about being quoted out of context, but then realized that this merits a response (which in turn motivated me to respond to all your points). In light of my response to "@Everyone" you probably can deduce my rebuttal herein. Nonetheless, I shall reiterate for the sake of effect:

Talk page conversations are just as easy to read as Message Wall conversations.

Now, this is clearly disputed. But the group of people who would read and not comment, whom you seem to be concerned about ("conversation stalkers"), would most likely be fully aware of the methods by which talk page conversations are accessed with extreme ease, e.g. The click of one button.

If you remember nothing else about this argument, remember this:

Talk pages do not afford any more practical privacy than message walls.

I'd also like to question the motives for caring about people merely reading your conversation. If you don't know about it (which you won't) what harm does it do you? Quite obviously, you were unaware of the ease with which talk page messages can be stalked, and it did you no harm. Besides that, what kind of content would you post that would be detrimental to be viewed? Please give me an example of this.