User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-436956-20100903203921/@comment-474870-20100904085842

My experiences of the shoutbox tell me one thing. It is ONLY used for spam. People only use it to say hi! and other stupid comments like that. It is useless. IRC can be used and if you want to report vandalism, use an admin's talk page!

I am glad they are removing it.