User blog comment:Ohmyn0/Introducing Chat/@comment-8072-20110428230856/@comment-118323-20110429211508

Letting anons chat has been debated here, but at the moment we're going to keep it simple and require anyone who wants to chat to have an account. It keeps the chat more civil when people can be kicked or banned for their actions.

Accounts are free and take about .003 seconds to create. ;-)