From a pure volunteer staff standpoint, moderating chat would be close to impossible or fairly ineffective at best IMO. I would love to see chat used myself. From a purely selfish standpoint though, I prefer to spend my time sifting through fish related topics than policing those few members who want to abuse it. (weeding those members out is no easy task) Purely my $0.02 though, as mentioned above I would prefer to have it/vote for it, for the record.
Yea, Ill bet you are 100% correct and speaking for the others when you say "From a pure volunteer staff standpoint, moderating chat would be close to impossible". I get it. It just stinks that a few ruin it for those of us that could handle it...oh well. such is life. thanks justin!