Let me first say I love real-time chat as a rule. That said, I would love to chat with lots of the folks on the 'pedia, but would also not like the idea that someone could immediately interrupt editing with chats. The up side is that it would really help with collaboration. The downside is that I think that the pedia may not be at a point where users would not first use it for flaming or jumping in to grind axes. Having a block mode would help, but then those conspiracy accusations would rear their ugly heads. <hoping that y'all realize I'm still interested in the wikipedia and don't think I'm being a hypocrite by adding my $.02>

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