I usually do not chat either. Mostly because I am playing enough tables to stay entertained. My attention span to online poker still needs some serious work. I definitely agree that most chat in the log is absolutely meaningless and it usually used mostly by the dead money. However, I think there must be some way to take advantage of the chat log to create a wreckless image that some players find lucrative. There is a good friend of mine who I play with at the riverboat, who never fails to sit down and get the blood boiling of every player in the ring. He plays fast, talks fast, is active in every pot, has a lot of gamble, and even goes as far to taunt and criticize the players to get them a little bit fired up. He usually sits down with a minimum buy-in, because the nature of his gameplay is to quickly explode or bust and rebuy. I can confidently say that he has done very well for himself with this methodology. And we was the inspiration for the onset of this thread, for his antics do not yeild such significant profitability in the online arena, for most players pay little attention to the chat log and are preoccupied with multiple tables, as aformentioned. My brother came up with the concept of online ring games where webcams and audio chat are mandatory to sit down, but I can forsee potential abuse and difficulty enforcing legitimate set-ups. Can you see any other way to transcend these live strategies into the online arena?