Quote Originally Posted by Greason Wolfe View Post
If I remember correctly (and it's been about 6 years or so since I bothered with IRC) for a fee, a chat room can be registered to a particular user who can set up scripts and grant "room kick" abilities to select individuals to prevent the spam problems.
There are IRC servers where no fee is required to register a chatroom.
I know it, because I am the owner of an IRC chatroom at quakenet .

We never encountered any significant problems with spammers.
The "biggest" problem is to keep on topic all the time. But even though there are times when smalltalk takes over, but there are more than enough interesting talks on topic (world building btw ).

So I would give an IRC chatroom a cahnce, but different timezones...