There is currently no “pin” feature in Discourse chat. There should be a pin feature for the chat, in case important messages need to be pinned for users to read. Pinning messages can be done if you are a moderator/admin or if you are in a personal message. This feature is currently implemented in Discord, as can be seen below:
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Seeing that screenshot makes me wonder if we could merge pinned messages into the same panel we use for chat threads. 
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+1 to this. would be a great feature to be able to pin a message to the top of the chat window like you can in slack with the ability to limit permissions for the feature to staff/admin.
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