To add to what I said before, because the impression I am getting is that apart from a few very active spamming members in the chatroom, this turned into one big annoyance for this simple reason:
I refresh the page to see if anything new on MLK. What do I see instead?
Ponies.The easiest solution I see here is to
simply shove the chatbox to the bottom of MLK. I still think that the chatbox idea can work, and as a spam-blocker, it's already working, but seriously, especially because it's MLK moderators that are really abusing this...
If you want ponies, that's fine. Just have an option so that I won't have to see them.