How to turn off chat completely?

How to turn off chat completely?
Tired of poison players.

I know that i can ban specific player at start of game, but now i want to turn off the chat completely.

Plz help.

Not possible by default. Maybe someone can make a UI mod to disable that window, but for now such a thing does not exist.

Also, to completely disable the chat window in a team related focused game is not the right approach IMHO - a better solution would be to squelch foes automatically.

Play single player if you want no chat.

There is a mod in the vault called "ChatSilencer"

It stops you from seeing anyone else's chat.

It does not silence pings or map markers. (In the past I was working on doing that, but I gave up and I don't feel like finishing the program, so for now it only silences chat.)