DHTML chat rooms are pretty cool, but I've also seen chat cause the death of many forum based sites. Forums aren't real time communication and give people a chance to cool off before posting something. In chat, people tend to say things in haste and anger then it follows back into the forum causing drama which in turn lowers the overall social environment. With MSN and other services we just add who we care to talk to, in a chat room, even if you ignore a person you don't like.. they're still there. I don't see any serious problem with the admin's putting a chat box somewhere on the site, but I won't be participating....