"IRC chat more or less meaningless"
No no no, not the chat itself, just the relevance of the chat content to a bot owner after the fact.
Let me give you an example. I own a couple of rooms - there is a bot (strangely enough called Bot) in those rooms. It does a different job in each room, aside from logging. In one room it is a general room management bot, in the other it does next to nothing though one thing it does do is issue an akill against someone trying a room takeover. All that aside, do I have time to read the 4GB of logs it has collected over the last two years? No chance. Even if I was on the dole there'd be no time and the content, which both you and I know to be generally fairly trivial, ie: We both know what the usual phrases are in #Teens, is of 0% interest to me. All I am implying is that most bot owners would be of the same opinion with regard to their bots.
