Lobby/Entrance with no sound. The reason is what?

[Morthawt]

I have been in many servers that have a lobby or entrance that has no sound and they want people to manually join a room. What are all the reasons for this?

[SilentStorm]

Personal Preferences
I see lots of people hanging out in the Lobby talking there not using any other channel at all as they are just too lazy. The Lobby is just a landing place in my opinion.

Humans seem to be infinitely lazy by nature so to encourage them using Channels one just disallows talking (or even any actions at all) in the lobby. But as with anything it really is just a matter of personal preferences and opinions.

[Morthawt]

Well I set mine up this way today because people on the iPhone keep hearing "user entered your channel..... User entered your channel...." because it is hearing all the server status scripts connecting via serverquery and its off putting. So I have set it so nobody can talk in the entrance. I was just wondering why other people do it.