OK, good since they barely show for me.
Purpose? Now that is a huge laugh to me. Pray, what is the purpose of this place? It's just a place for mindfuckery. Occasionally we learn something about the world or life.. but it has no real purpose other than what you make of it. I think that people like you will have issues with chat because you don't know how to be here, and just carry on regular conversations. So of course, chat would seem pointless to you.
Too bad for ya... but a lot of the rest of us don't have that problem, Tom.
i was actually thinking of databasing public chat logs and allowing them to be searchable.
people would need to watch what they say in public that, but private chat would be available and that would certainly not be databased!!
the way i see it, public chat is fair game. we like to document what was said here. people mention that a lot. being able to loko back and search the public chat shouldn't be a huge privacy issue.