User blog comment:PyroNacht/How To Use Chat Properly/@comment-25965965-20170408000501/@comment-26402117-20170408204750

It's a relative thing. On the scale of "every 10 seconds" or more than once every conversation, it becomes very tedious and can interfere with what other people have to say. It also is hard to ignore certain types of conversation when helping people with wiki stuff - this issue and some roleplay can be a bit annoying.

In general, quite a lot of chat discussion is users focusing on their own stream of conversation starters and ignoring other people. So whenever I interact socially, I try to avoid doing that and be a bit more receptive to what's there.