Speaking as someone who doesn't go into chat much, on the rare occasions that I have ventured to log in, I've found it to be entirely too cliquish for my tastes. I mean, you pretty much have the Austrailian Mafia™, Zed, Thoth, Kibs and Drea, and just about anybody else foolish enough to wander in tends to get "tooled," as you guys put it. That might be funny or cool for a few minutes, but to me, it gets really old, really fast.
Get your facts straight, chat is hardly like that anymore. Australian mafia? That's cute.