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Originally Posted by Uhrenknecht
I'm railing the 10M$ SM FT and feel the urge to chat, why the f is there no observer chat for this purposes? We got 10k people watching ffs. Something that pops up by the side and is not to be seen by the normal chat
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Originally Posted by ItsOnlyChips
they do that so its not a distraction to the players
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Originally Posted by kelnel
A side chat for observers only is actually a pretty cool idea
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Originally Posted by Sonicdahedgehog
I personally don't see the point in it. With so many people watching and using a feature like that, the chat would move at a million miles an hr and be unreadable anyway. Legit people wanting to use it, wouldn't be able to keep up and the majority would just spam the crap out of it with rubbish.
Yes, observer chat was removed from the tables so it won't distract players and, yes, a side-chat just for observers is a cool idea and, yes, it has inherent speed/rubbish problems - so you are all right!
The idea has merit and had been discussed internally several years ago and is still kicking around on somebody's back burner. To put safeguards in for blocking racist/sexist crap, spam and other undesirable content would make this a rather large project, so it's unlikely to get any traction for the foreseeable future.