Why does Twitch Chat try to interpret "./" as a command?

[BarryCarlyon]

@timeshifter08

The purpose of the . is explicitly to prevent it from parsing as a command.

if you are referring to the IRC RFC’s

TMI aka Twitch Messaging interface, noes not abide by the relevant RFC’s it merely implements part of it and happens to be roughly IRC client compatible.

Twitch Chat is NOT IRC

Edit: the use of the . over the / is to allow for some IRC clients trying to send /timeout as a server command instead of a TMI command.