all i know is, the drama you've stirred up has really fucked up our private bitcointalk series. a bunch of our players can no longer chat at the tables anymore because of the 500 krill requirement. implementing something like this without any kind of whitelisting feature leaves a really bad taste in one's mouth. it's pretty annoying that you guys let some trollbox drama turn into this, not to mention de facto chat banning all new players to the site. what a shitshow!