You obviously think these chats are more valuable than they appear. True, you "warned" people they may not be interesting, but now when people express this reaction you dismiss the readers as being too simple to understand their great merit.

Also, what is this tremendous editing effort to which you refer? All you have to do is a "find & replace" for the usernames and use the same feature with wildcards to eliminate the timestamps if you so choose. Personally I get information from the timestamps, such as how frantically someone may be typing, if someone is nodding or not paying attention, etc. Maybe you want to conceal those clues.

For all the buildup the product thus far is a letdown. That's your fault, not ours.