If the purpose of this is to show that people in a scene are actually doing things, which I suppose looks good for newbies, I guess it's a good thing.
If people are worried about not being able to use chat, why not use the 'rp requirement' tag to determine whether the messages show up? For example, a location set as 'strict' wouldn't have them show up. Then people would congregate where they want to based on what they want to do... or just go somewhere with the 'strict' tag.