User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: June 28, 2017/@comment-26148213-20170630162853/@comment-1611013-20170630202501

why not make the limit optional. believe it or not, some wikis would like to decide how to moderate themselves.

edit: and i know its not a purely moderation thing, but its still clearly causing issues with chatting and making it more lenient isnt necessarily going to fix the issues its creating. many wikis dont have a problem with people spamming in chat, so this global mute feature is unnecessary there.