It was used for scamming, and phishing.
People used it to personate "Steam admins" by changing the color of their
text, appearing it was a different "rank".

I'm glad it was taken down.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Travis Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a pretty good guess why. the /me is a irc action. My theory is that
> each chat created a new irc channel and held the conversations. I think
> they updated to a whole new system when they brought out the emoticons. I
> could be completely wrong but this is my theory.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Albert Davis <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Why was this taken out? Can we get it back? :/
>>
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