Just curious how to report bots? I clicked the player’s name and submitted a report that way, but I didn’t know if there was a more effective way of doing it? Or maybe a way that would get seen faster? I haven’t really run across too many bots during the leveling process, but now at a higher level I am seeing them more and more. I’m trying to level/do quests and it’s hard when bots are running around killing everything you need.
They aren’t bots, but that is the correct way to report them.
I’m pretty sure the one I’ve been following is a bot. They’ve been on nearly 24 hours straight, no stopping, always following the same path, killing the same NPCs… I mean, I guess I could be wrong but it sounds like a bot to me.
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iTs NoT a BoT. Reeeeee
porting does nothing. It’s as pointless as screaming at a deaf person (Blizzard)
This is the part that always amuses me. Maybe you should log off for a while.
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If it isn’t a bot, rather than mocking me, could you kindly educate me as to what it might be? I certainly wouldn’t want to keep reporting players I suspect are bots if they are, in fact, not bots.
Or perhaps I’ve not been on 24 hours. I took time off to sleep. Then logged back on this morning. Could somebody else have done the same? Sure. I even said maybe it’s not a bot. But they are suspiciously acting like one.
Ten bucks says that dude thinks you’re a bot.
Sooo… I shouldn’t report players? This is kinda what I’m gathering from how you’re responding.
did you never actually see those hunters level 60 without guild and with a chinese pet name killing mobs in azshara?, there are a lot of bots
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Yes, you absolutely should. Blizzard bans bots all the time - banned bots complain in the CS forums all the time on alt accounts or their friends post for them proclaiming their innocence.
Don’t let the cynics get you down; right-click reporting absolutely works and is absolutely what you should do. It captures a snapshot of their activity at the time and forwards it to the Hacks Team along with their account and character info.
The problem is that most bots are run/owned by overseas gold farming “companies” who can spin up new accounts very quickly, so it can look like nothing is happening. On top of that, Blizzard bans in waves so that they can break each bot program permanently without tipping off the bot makers and gold farmers until the hammer falls.
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Thank you, for your kind (and informative!) response and not answering like a prick 
I only asked because I’ve never reported anybody before so I wasn’t sure of the process. Thanks 
I didn’t spend much time Azshara, oddly, lol. But yes, I have seen them, but there’s a lot in the 50+ zones- namely Felwood and Winterspring, due to farming.
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No problem! Always happy to help! ^.^
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Blizzard doesn’t ban bots. The same characters follow the same scripting in the same zones all day every day for months on end. Similar to the same posters who are always sniffing around for threads like these to insist that bots don’t exist.
They’re obviously wrong unless you think someone paying the subscription fee for five separate accounts doesn’t understand how mob tagging works. You can steal their tags all day and the multiboxer magebots will happily kill the mobs for you.
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Nope, go ahead and report them. Just don’t get bent out of shape because you’re wrong. Which you will be the vast majority of the time.
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I load up the Chinese client before I name a farming character or pet just to make bigots lose their mind.
I don’t need to click on that to know it’s fail.
Was hoping you’d get creative. 
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I’m just going to go ahead and guess that you probably have a few alts dedicated to botting, hence your blatent discomfort with me mentioning reporting another bot.
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lol