shminux comments on Handshakes, Hi, and What's New: What's Going On With Small Talk? - Less Wrong
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It's not so much the number of parties, as smalltalk is OK in general chat, it's the off-topic noise that is discouraged, because of wasted time/attention, as you said, and possibly disrupted on-topic discussions.