You just insulted the intelligence of every body who can read what you just write.
Its very easy to see. Bot react the same way all the time. bot never emote or rarelly target me. Last night after i kill a low lv hunter pet and drain is mana he started to emote me and try to drain my mana . So uppon realizing he was no bot i followed him around and kill mob he tagged then i /goodbye he /goodbye and we both part ways.
Here what happening. People pushing narrative and nothing else
wrote, not write
So … you feel insulted that I pointed out a potential case where a character would not respond the way another player expected? That’s not intelligence being insulted.
Bear in mind, I’m not excusing bots. I’m explaining why, from a player perspective, we don’t get to decide what is and isn’t a bot - only whether we feel their behavior warrants reporting. Blizzard decides, and they use a whole lot more data than what a player sees happening in-game.
People point to any hunter with a pet whose name is non-English characters as a bot - yet I’ve had one turn, target me, and /thank /wave when I buffed them.
Any of the ways we players ‘detect a bot’ depend on our perspective, and we don’t know everything.
gold making will get even more extreme is probably the only negative i can think of
as someone who botted honor in cataclysm and 30 years of age i feel insulted and defamed.
Here what bot do well do the same thing over and over and over if you break there pathern you will see the machine. I cant believe you actually made me prove my point. There should be a way to sue people over the internet.
“Do its negatives outweigh the advantage??” is the million dollar question isn’t it? I think if you allow players to purchase Gold for their characters using real money, than something that was part of old school MMORPGs will have been lost. I can’t think of any major MMORPG that sanctioned that back in the day. If you wanted to get Gold, you had to earn it through in-game actions or risk getting banned by dealing with illicit, back-alley services that were breaking the rules.
Having said that, having a policy against Gold-Sellers only matters if it’s properly enforced, and the current level of enforcement appears to be woefully inadequate. So if they’re not going to ban Gold-Sellers anyway … wouldn’t having Tokens improve things? I think the answer to that is “yes”, but I would rather they properly enforce their own policy so that players have to earn their gold by playing the game rather than having in-game wealth be connected to what’s in a player’s real-life wallet.
Nice point 
There is no way for us to prove its a bot sadly. We can report suspected cheaters using RCR. Usually you can see if someone is suspicious depending on their pathing. Since bots using coordinates bots usually move in very strict patterns and will repeat movements exactly and if they deter from their position they will walk back to X spot. This is usually the key factor IMO. There are prob other ways people use to see if someone is suspect.
It’s pretty easy to tell, especially if it’s a badly programmed one.
Strange, conditional use of abilities, following set paths without deviation, an army of multiboxed chars doing the same thing and such.
They used to get stuck a lot, but I guess they’ve worked out the kinks since.
A good guide, here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lightshope/comments/9685oa/how_to_spot_a_bot/
I’ve been following this Hunter around Un’goro for probably 30+mins now. Moonfire before he attacks. Making this Bloodpetal quest a lot easier for me. 
He finally got ate by a Devilsaur. But, he’ll be back!
E: He’s back! And continuing to kill mobs I tag. 100% he’s a bot. Reported and wrote his name down. We’ll see~
A guy helps you out and you accuse him of botting. That’s cold, man.
DOT’s a BOT clearly haa
lol, maybe! But, yah. I basically wait for him to Hunter’s Mark and send his pet in, then Moonfire. He’s not coming to my aid! Did it with a Hunter in Tanaris a while back, too. Who is actually still online in Silithus right now.
Nah, it’s straight up bots. They all perform the same patterns and routes and they never log out. It’s very obvious. Just, they pay $15 so Blizzard doesn’t want to ban them.
Bots move in straight lines. They don’t turn while moving. They don’t strafe. They will ignore you if you fight them.
It’s very easy to spot a bot
if you can’t beat them, join Them!!
You know, having played for near 15 years now, I have seen a lot of crazy stuff evolve in WoW, and I never thought people would stoop so low as to exploit the add-ons and macros, creating automated characters to farm nodes for profit in the real world. This is the most ridiculous and insulting trait of a person or company as it should be understood that a group of people are doing this for monetary gain in the real world.
When I see 9 characters flying in an accordion like formation, somewhat stacked, all swoop in on top of an ore node, pause to collect then fly off like after images leaving the node, they are indeed different, and leave within a split second after each other, this is outrageous.
If reporting them does not get them banned, then perhaps the add-ons/macros should be limited or regulated so as to stop automated bots from being applied to characters. Yes, I have seen gibberish names, and the straight line flight paths from node to node in zones, like Winterspring, Icecrown and Ulduum. looking for the ores that are rare and worth more. One could also consider putting caps on AH prices to stop greedy people from abusing this game. There is no way I will pay my hard earned and limited gold supply to someone who just turns around to sell it for real money to other players for gold or tokens, that is just not ethically right.
You see what looks like a bot, report it, let Blizzard figure out if it is a real or fake player. Put a stop to the game being used for economic gain in the real world.
Warcraft and its players are a community of a hundred million strong that have enjoyed the fantasy realms created by Blizzard’s creative minds for enjoyment and an escape from the misery of the real and overly vicious world we live in, it should not be used by players in any manner that gives them anything but satisfaction at completing quests, overcoming dungeon and raid bosses and working together as a community of people who like being here.
End the greed and the grief that comes with it.
Questions like this show me you’re a bot.
i read all the posts. I find it odd that most of the reply’s to the OP’s original question was rarely answered.
also its funny you have really good imaginations, but they also indicate your just making up stuff. you observe someone playing and you start to compile the behavior to support your own “fact” that they are bots. its really funny
^ bot sympathizer