User blog comment:First $ea Lord Sven Daggerteel/Thinking about the chat rule (You must have 100 edits to join chat)/@comment-3119454-20120615205129/@comment-1279322-20120615205923

It keeps out the spammers and users who come here solely to socialize. Are you guys seriously too lazy to just make the 100 edits&mdash;which Step can get in 3 hours?

As I said, it's not getting changed.