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It's interesting how some things have changed over the years when it comes to chat rooms. And how other things haven't. When I first started in The Palace the internet was new, and chat rooms were for shut-ins, agoraphobes, and nerds. We basically lived on the internet. So it made sense to some to treat the room as a place you entered and left.
Now you can sit on a discord server on mobile and have a life, pop in the middle of a conversation somewhere and then leave it. And some servers still suggest you greet a room like you live there.
It's like, when I was a kid, having internet access to all human knowledge, anywhere, would have been a divine gift. Now we all have computers in our pockets and some people still argue about basic facts that can be resolved instantly. We treat technology very strangely.
It's fascinating to see and understand the unwritten rules, and have them written. Sometimes a rule it's obvious to some, others like me, find them just weird.
Here's the thing, it is weird for today technology, because you never truly go away from the chatroom. But back in the IRC times joining a chatroom was very similar to entering a room, you would only see messages sending from then on, so if you wanted to keep track of a chat you were having after you left you needed to leave your computer connected and online, so it was impossible to know when someone was online and when they just had left the computer on to follow up on a thread that was happening when he went to sleep, so it was a common courtesy, just like saying hello when walking into a room. It was a way of telling people "I'am here now", but most chatrooms today have an away status you can set.
I agree it doesn't make sense on discord or whatever, which is why I don't do it there. But it might be one of those things that people just keep perpetuating because it's what they always did.
That reminds me of a quote: Do you remember in the 90s when we thought the issue was lack of access to information? Nope, that wasn't it.