User blog comment:Sgt D Grif/Harassment of Users/@comment-24464090-20140427014435/@comment-3146930-20140427025922

I think it is that users that stay away from the chat only see the blog, forum, and article things, which are normally about the series and their ideas about them. Chat is much more free as far as topics go and users can talk about anything they won't. So to hear about things like this going on in an area of the site they don't normally visit is very surprising and may give them more of a reason to avoid that area.