Why one player can disable chat for all?

   We were having a real fun game except for one grouch.

How is it one player can decide to disable chat for everyone?  

For instance if someone is trying to team/cheat in any way the chat has to have a disable setting, or if some one is constantly using bad language is another reason. But mainly cheating, I have had someone who had a copy and paste chat thing in asking people to team with him! so it is necessary.

It should require Two players to disable it, not One. Often it is the One disabling the chat that is acting like an idiot, sppoiling ot because he can

I see what you mean, the problem is that if one player doesn't now about the disable chat button, or isn't focusing on the chat, or doesn't care, then it can be disaster because teaming and cheating only needs a few words. But it is annoying when someone disables it for fun, that's not nice. 

• 3v1 teaming
• excessive bad language

Those are two reasons I basically thought of as soon as I read this topic why only one player can disable the chat.

Here is a case where I disabled the chat (I was green). Not the worst case, but better be safe than sorry. 

I had a situation like that but since they had mentioned working together already, stopping chat did not work. Even without chat they were still working together because of what was said before.

To be honest outright teaming is pretty bad, but when two players decide to attack a player with two queens, that isn't teaming, its just politics. i enjoy this mode a lot due to the politics of it, and muting chat just feels like taking away an element of the game.

So many unspoken teaming strategies depending on situation.   If in third spot and doing bad helping someone to knock out the weakest link can avoid you comigg last.  Or if second best you can do then helping the strongest plYer makes sense.   Or if second with a good chance of winning then combining against strongest a good option.

All these strategies should be known and carried out in silence, there should be no need to chat about who to attack

The problem with engaging in politics via chat is that some people are more fluent at English than others, and some are faster at typing than others. My personal problem is that when I write something I want to be syntactically perfect, which usually involves editing, even for a 5-word sentence. Thinking what to say, then writing, then editing, while being careful to avoid pressing the left-arrow key (due to the current bug that moves the pieces on the board), and finding good moves in a time span of 15 seconds, is beyond the capabilities of my brain. 

I usually like to chat