Sure, IRC has the /ignore command, but it just removes all mention
of a nick from a channel. Sometimes this is what you want, but
Mike recently shared a
little irssi script that will simply censor anything an idiot
says. That way the conversation isn’t as disjointed as it could be
otherwise.
I’ve modified the script so that more than one nick can be censored. My version is here. Basic knowledge of Perl is required to use this. It’s also easy to evade by changing nicknames, I’ll try to fix this in later versions.
To install in irssi, follow these instructions.