Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-145064-20140320170332/@comment-1990160-20140320174741

Users see it, say "ohmygawd a robot", then ignore it. In reality, a watchful government security program might lead people to act in ways that the government views as favorable, but I am not the government, and neither is StealthTeh an intrusive security program.
 * Changing the way people behave

Private messaging is private, yes? The chat is open to all individuals that surf the net and decide to register a wikia account. I believe that qualifies as "public". Recording chat falls in line with the ideal of openness and assists greatly in settling disputes where both sides have no evidence but individual testimonies.
 * Privacy invasion

Chat logging =/= dystopian government level security, not by any means. Recording chat interaction is not nearly the same as cameras on every corner watching busy intersections, or tapping every phone call you make, or monitoring your credit card transactions, etc. etc.
 * Kitten's alarmist warning

Who? Half the time I come in, I'm the only star in chat. More recently, an incident occurred where a cmod banned a user immediately after they left. They have claims of multiple warnings, and that the user had "annoyed" other users, but I saw no proof of this, nor a recent event that would lead to an immediate ban.
 * Trusting chat mods