And that's not my intention.

But there were certain people that could draw in a good chat in the old days. A downhill snowball that would gather one, then another, then another of fun people who said to themselves "hey, look who's in chat!" and next thing you know it would be full of hilarious calamity. None of those people are currently big participators in Skype chat. And I realize I'm largely going by those I myself find appealing and that is unfair to some, but I am just going by what evidence I've seen in the past from first hand experience. I'm sure the enjoyability of the gatherings is probably subjective, but I was only trying to throw out "best guesses" on why Joel is whining that no one wants to participate in his chat sessions, or why they haven't caught on.