Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26271539-20150402221753/@comment-4500149-20150402223610

It's to help prevent sockpuppets and users who enter our chat with the intent to only cause trouble, most of which do not have any edits and would not bother making edits. It's like how you have to be on the wiki for 4 days to upload images and edit semi-protected pages. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it's to help improve the chat experience for users who use the chat responsibly.