I agree that it would be fun to have chat rooms, but sadly, people always start to abuse things, the way that some people have abused and continue to abuse the forums. If you've ever been in any chatrooms on the web you'll find out that some people enter the chat rooms just to pick fights, others to deliberately put people down, and the subject matter that the chatroom was made for is rarely ever discussed. I'm not saying that it's a bad idea, or that all GTTP members would abuse it, but Jeff has all these things to consider, and I'm sure he doesn't want all his hard work making this a quality site to be ruined by some disrespectful people in chatrooms.
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