That's a bit short-sighted once you write a question or an answer on an SE site, it's stored, if you delete or vandalise the post it still exists on SE infrastructure. You can't control that.

@Joachim You don’t see the purpose? I’m fairly sure the purpose is pretty obvious.

@Joachim That was a whole point…but at the same time I tried to make it relevant. I’m not sure other then trying to identify bugs in the winter-bash how you can legitimately earn this hat.

Okay, so what legitimate way would you suggest?

I guess that’s why many setup chat rooms to get the chat related hats specifically but each to their own.

With "Chatterbox" what is meant by "5 distinct blocks of messages"?

Love the down-votes. If this isn’t the approach what do you suggest instead? I could go and try and hunt down some obscure bug in the winter-bash that needs addressing but I imagine most of them have already be raised. Open to suggestions…

Perhaps "Request delete as spam" and "Request delete as rude or abusive"?

Can also confirm something is broken what searching chat. No results are returned for even the simplest searches.

Making it optional defeats the whole purpose of the feature, if you don't want your "Last Seen" to be visible then don't use the site.

The fact this answer was left by a now removed account speaks volumes.

How are you meant to earn the Carmen hat if you have already pass the "suggested edit" rep threshold?

You forgot to test the double space line break works just as well as <br>.