Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-145064-20140320170332/@comment-26113496-20140321032608

LionsLight wrote: Because surprisingly enough, lots of personal discussion, gossiping, and politics happen on chat.

Incidentally, the logging of chat discussion as long as personal conversations are being held is a violation of Wikia's Terms of Use (bullets 5, 7 and 19). This is distinct from people volunteering personal information via editing and comments because you join chat with the expectation that nothing is logged. This is standard for most IRCs, and when you join chat there is no indication otherwise.

While many users are under the age of 18, shouldn't the chat logs immediately be discontinued?