Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-24728342-20160321201257/@comment-3387274-20160323133854

You've completely missed the point. Chat, as it stands, is public BOTH WAYS. When you say something everyone in chat can see it, but you know who those people are and can simply choose not to say it if you don't want them to know. With a log, everyone else sees it as well. You not only don't know who is going to see it, but you won't even know if they have unless they come up and use it against you in some way. They don't even necessarily need to have a wikia account to see it.

Yes, chat is public now, but you can say something and still have some awareness and control of who sees it. With a bot in place the only way to have that is to not say anything in the first place.