I am not familiar with HexChat but you might consider using a different IRC client that allows you to silence anything/everything by default and only alert you

I am not familiar with HexChat but you might consider using a different IRC client that allows you to silence anything/everything by default and only alert you on specific keywords you are interested in. If you like command line tools, consider trying out WeeChat IRC client [1] It is very customizable and there are many scripts for it. I've used it in conjunction with GNU Screen running on VM's and using Mosh [2] to connect to my VM if I am on a mobile or high-network-loss connection. As for the moderator behavior, Mint is not a commercially supported OS AFAIK so the only options would be to either not use that chat, or publish IRC logs as static files to a website. It is not uncommon for IRC logs to be published on an archive site. Sometimes behavior can improve when people know their actions are recorded and published outside of their control, but perhaps not in this case. Taking a look around it appears this behavior has been going on for some time. [3] [1] - https://weechat.org/ https://weechat.org/ [2] - https://mosh.org/ https://mosh.org/ [3] - https://libreddit.mha.fi/r/linuxmint/comments/3s3e7q/is_there_a_mint_chat_that_isnt_toxic/ https://libreddit.mha.fi/r/linuxmint/comments/3s3e7q/is_ther...