No, everyone that's a town player coming into the chat and talking should have been removed from the game straight off.  Try winning then.

If seven people out of 12 in a game are in a chat breaking the rules, it's only fair for the 1 guy out of the loop to see what's going on.

If there's that much chatter going on in early game situations in a public chat, how much private chat do you think went on through the whole game?

Not that I'm saying this is okay in any way, but there's a big difference between Shock coming into an empty chat late in a game ranting for 20 minutes about whether or not he should post his night PM quotes, and 7 people on D1 who are all alive talking about the game leaving the handful not online at the time with no clue the conversation ever happened.  Sure, 90% of this might be people just BSing, but it's not too hard for certain people to leave very convincing impressions on others in those situations.

And everyone always argues over what the line should be...well it's pretty much impossible so there should be just zero tolerance.  Keep it in the thread.

To be honest, anyone who posts in IRC about a mafia game needs their head examined.

I was clear to shock about what could or couldn't be posted.