Can I answer my own questions?

You can but you get no points and it can't be picked as best answer

It's useful for making additional comments beyond the limit of 5 updates, and until you select a best answer, you can edit your answer, thus getting away with virtually unlimited chat.

Edit:

Until someone report monkey's you. Then you're effed.

Watch as reporter trolls use it to bait people into chat then they edit remove their own chat and report the suckers.

Yes, you can Just do the same as you answer any member's questions, type your answer in the box below the question click submit.

They just type an answer here.