Current talk
pages are extremely unfriendly.
I think they should be abandoned and replaced by
more "natural" system of posting.
You mean, not a wiki?
I think not.
I agree talk pages must remain wiki style for three reasons.
First, adding another system for talk pages makes users learn another
system and that makes things inherently more complex.
Second, talk pages are intended to help people make articles, and
therefore the requirement to learn wiki syntax to post on talk pages
just keeps out those who wouldn't take time to learn to contribute to
actual articles.
Ever since Ward's Wiki is that there is some minimum requirement to
participate -- namely the ability to figure out wiki syntax. This is
not hard, but it does require a little effort. And many have argued
that this is one of the reasons that wiki's can maintain a higher level
of discourse than newsgroups and web based discussion groups.
Third, an important part of the "wiki way" is refactoring, I have
refactored a number of large talk pages removing the dross, keeping
sustentative contributions, and putting it all together to flow more
naturally. This is only possible because of the flexibility of the wiki
system.