Allow inviting people with rep < 20 to private chat?

Question

Quite often I have run into situations where I had an extensive talk with a newbie (about SO and/or programming itself) using the comments. Since you shouldn't use the comments to further discuss things (which are often off topic from the original question), I'd like to use the chat for those discussions.

As a matter of fact if you do use the comments to discuss something, you get a notification which tells you to move the discussion to a chat-room.

Unfortunately, most of those users don't have the required 20 reputations to talk in chat, so you also get this fancy orange box telling you that you can't move the discussion. This normally leads to using the comments again.

Don't get me wrong at this point, I'm NOT asking you to change this (I actually think it's a good thing).

My idea would be, that a user who has enough reps to talk in the Chat should be able to invite a user who doesn't have enough reps into a private Chat-room (just for the two of them).

The user with the <20 reps would only be able to talk in this very room, e.g. would receive a "temporary privilege".

Edit As nhinkle pointed out, this is already possible but you need to be Moderator and it requires multiple steps. This gave me the impression that it shouldn't be that difficult to realize.

Answer 1

Diamond moderators only can add <20 rep users to chat. Here is what you must do:

1. The user must create an account on chat. All they have to do is go to chat.stackexchange.com, and they should be automatically logged in. If they aren't, have them go to stackexchange.com/users/chat-login, where they can log in via the alternate login method.
2. Once the user has a chat account, all you have to do is add them to the room's access list. Click on the room dropdown, then click on control access.

Enter the user's username, then click the arrow dropdown next to their usercard to add them to the write access list.

3. Tada! The user now has access to the chat room, even if they have less than 20 reputation! If they're already viewing the chat room while logged in, it will refresh and they will be able to chat.