User blog comment:Flamefang/Chat: What's killing it?/@comment-1393830-20111101045502/@comment-1393830-20111101154549

No, IRC is where the experienced users of wikia go. A topic can be set so that incoming users know what is being discussed. A person can be made so they are unable to speak if they are being disruptive, rather than just kickbanning them. There is both a kick and a ban function so that users can just be kicked from the channel but allowed to come back in. No one's connection floods the channel like it does chat. You can close a pm on IRC. Wikia chat's basis was IRC. Chat is an incomplete product, IRC is not.