In every chat box (in game, community page, etc) there should be an iChat style time entry every few minutes.

If you aren't familiar, in iChat the first message has a time stamp that appears above the message in the chat order. Each successive message DOES NOT include any time info, unless more than a minute or so elapses between messages. If more than a certain lapse occurs between messages, the next message will be preceded by a time stamp.

Something similar, perhaps just a time stamp on a 5 minute interval, would give a lot more meaning to the chats.

Not meaning, but context - sure ... I also like the idea

Good call! We like it. Much more meaningful than adding a time stamp to every message (which would stil be better than having none)

+1