[sadkingbilly]

Interesting. We're finally back to the 1990's BBS days, with real-time sysop chat. I never understood why AIM and other chat messengers removed real-time typing when we always had that with the BBSes. I suppose it was due to latency or flow (you type a sentence hit enter, I type a sentence hit enter), but in 2013, you would think most chat systems would allow character by character typing by now. You can tell a lot from a person by how they type: slow typing, frequent misspellings, interrupting the other user, etc, and can convey more information.

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[spullara]

They removed it because people don't like it. Every chat system out there has had it at one point or another. As it turns out, people don't like their mistakes broadcast to the person they are chatting with.