Ah... ui mod!  This is actually very useful then.  Thanks Chirmaya. 

They are exactly the same And yeah, /ignore JoeBuddyDude in chat. Do it again to un-ignore.

Thanks for the clarification.  Updated op mayhaps?  Thanks for all your work on mods Chirmaya.  I'm glad you still play dg and are willing to put the time into modding.  You too, morph.  Kudos!

Superb!

Does the ignore for a particular player carry over from one game to the next?

yes.  Open up hook\lua\ui\game\chat.lua and find this code:

function SetupIgnoreList()
    local armies = GetArmiesTable()
    local focus = armies.focusArmy
    for id, army in armies.armiesTable do
        -- Can't ignore yourself, as much as you may want to
        if id != focus and army.human then
            ignoredPlayers[string.lower(army.nickname)] = false
        end
    end
end

Now change the line that sets ignoredPlayers to false to instead read:

ignoredPlayers[string.lower(army.nickname)] = army.nickname=='IHateThisGuy' or army.nickname=='ThisGuyHasAPottyMouth' or army.nickname=='TalksTooMuch'

Won't this cause even more broken teamwork in game play?

Bumping for future reference - think I'm going to add this to the combined installer.

edit - hmm... this is apparently listed in the change log for Demigod 1.2.  Will have to test to see if the squelch command works without the mod.

Ah - ok then.  Saved me some testing time then.  Thanks!