alabama, it doesn't talk constantly, but it talks when the server pings you, depending how often your server send you a ping. It's rather useful if you will, especially when you're away from your PC, you have nothing to say, and you want to appear that you're alive and kicking. :P People who don't know will think you're there speaking. It's especially useful when you're on a channel where the ops kick for idlers. This sort of acts like an auto-bot talker. You can turn it off when you're back on your PC via nicklist and channel popup.