After all, Colloquy must be receiving the messages that I’m ignoring, so it should be fairly trivial to allow me to take a peek at what I’m ignoring. This would be useful to make sure that I’ve not inadvertently been a bit too liberal with my regular expressions.
The only thing I wish I could do now is be able to selectively press a button to allow me to see the text that I’ve been ignoring. You see, Colloquy allows to you use lovely regular expressions in your ignore rules, so with a bit of ingenuity you too will be able to banish all that horrible bot noise back where it belongs. So, for example, for a karma bot that was controlled by lines such as “item++” and “item-” I set up rules in the format “Ignore messages if message contains \+\+$”.
As well as that, I set up associated rules for bot control messages that I didn’t want to see as well. For each of the bots I wanted to ignore I set up a simple “If the sender’s name is xxx, ignore it” rule. It shouldn’t be that hard to get to be able to set up a few Ignores Rules, should it?įrom the Ignores tab you can pretty much set up any rules you like, just remember to make them permanent.
#Colloquy irc windows#
Phew - it’s almost like I was back in Windows World. Select the server that you’d like to set up ignore rules for, and click on the “Info” icon.Open the “Window” menu and select “Connections”.Rooting around the application, I found the place that controls how people and messages get ignored. At first this seemed to work, but unfortunately the next time I loaded up Colloquy the bot started spewing out its nonsense again.
I use Colloquy as my IRC client on the Mac, so tried the obvious thing of right clicking on the username of the bot I wanted to ignore and selecting, you guessed it, “Ignore”. My first attempt to do this didn’t turn out so well. So, instead of whining like a little girl I decided to “man up” and do something about removing the bots and related noise from my view. This is a pity because when there’s signal in the channel it’s very useful stuff to be aware of. Unfortunately, one of the channels that I use is somewhat infested with bots. Colloquy, one of the staples of MacOS desktop clients, also makes an appearance on iOS in the form of a mobile version. Ignoring Bots in IRC Channels using Colloquy
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