@SuperDicq >this dude that I knew on IRC was so fed up me spamming join and quit messages in his channel that he gave me SSH access to his server to run an Irssi client in a screen session so he wouldn't see the join/quit messages any omre.
Couldn't he just configure irssi to silence join/quits from you?

I know weechat has the ability to silence irrelevant join/parts.