Are you investigating every guild invite sent by people? A human player using a recruitment add-on is still a human player.
And yes, someone who can read or uses Listener can set keywords so they get an audio ping when someone says something in a chat that they see, so if I set a ping notification for whatever crafted items I can make, or a profession that I have, I could hear a notification, look, right click the name that sent the message with different-colored text and bam, fast response.
I can stand around for 8 hours in WoW doing absolutely nothing in-world, looking like Iâm doing nothing but instead be memeing in trade chat. Iâd still say that botting should be banned but only when itâs actual bots, not people being fast at responding, spamming their recruitment macro, or standing around idle.
Humans actually. They use stolen accounts, and use the already provided in-game tools, including /who and macroâs. Action only gets taken against them when players reporting there messages.
Doubtful. A lot of bot accounts are generally throw-away accounts and are very likely stolen. This leads to fraudulent subscriptions and they need to pay the money back.
Yes, we all know what a bot is. Iâm not saying bots donât exist, Iâm just saying the things you are calling âbotsâ arenât bots even by your example. The bots that send you unsolicited messages, as Iâve said, are similar to the ones like âBlizzzardâ trying to steal your account or the countless RMT advertisers that plague services channel and the LFG tool, which you should do your part in reporting.
Reminds me of a certain admin that investigates themselves and claims no wrongdoing.
The ones sent to me? Yeah, the ones that hit every character or will hit various friends in COMPLETELY different zones than me at the same time?
âA human player using a botting program is still a human player, not a botâ - Brakk the wise
Youâre free to hop onto OPs server, post an add for any profession and get multiple whispers the very second itâs sent.
You seem unfamiliar with the ones in the chats 24/7 sending garbled nonsense in the chats as well.
Good thing those are not being discussed in this thread, you can move on from it and find the threads discussing those instead if you wish to discuss them
You do realize that whispers are global, yeah? You donât need to be in the same zone to send a /whisper or /ginvite. They even introduced a feature to automatically block /ginvite under Options > Gameplay > Social if you are that bothered by them while playing on a guildless character.
And human player using a macro is not a bot. Botting programs are already defined by Blizzard, if they were using a botting program, it wouldnât be on CurseForge and they would be banned.
And when it comes to âgarbledâ messages? Report them. If it is advertising RMT? Report them. If it is offensive? Report them. If it is spam? Report them. Guild adverts are generally just a guy hitting their trade chat macro every few minutes and if they are doing it faster than that, report them for spam. Itâs just that simple.
You do realize you can only /who 50 people at a time and only by area, race, level, class, guild etc (But itâs also been broken for ages and doesnât even show everyone) yet these addons have no problems bypassing that and sending tons of messages instantly with a g invite? I know thereâs no way Iâm sending that many messages by /who, hitting send message, then a macro.
Good thing thatâs not whatâs being discussed here.
Doesnât seem to be the case. Tons of programs that violate their rules under that are in there as well as the ones that violate the rules by taking money are in there as well.
I do, I make a lot every day. Same ones will sit around, because as a blue poster mentioned it takes a certain amount of reports in a threshold for it to even GENERATE a ticket.
I say people using add-ons or macros to send messages arenât a bot.
You guys keep saying it is botting.
I say itâs a macro or add-on.
You say that itâs botting.
You really keep wanting to discuss it like itâs botting, when it isnât.
As for illegal mods on Curseforge? Thatâs just a bunch of nonsense by not understanding what constitutes an illegal mod.
Botting refers to the use of automated software to do things instead of the player.
The addons are automated things to the point theyâd be classified as botting.
You have no evidence to support your argument that things are not being automated, because they provably are being automated. The player isnât the one initiated the chats or even using macros in the cases weâre talking about.
No, I understand completely. Just like I understand the evokers that were exploiting in arena and still are allowed to play, doesnât mean they were not using exploits because they were not actioned.
THAT SAID, if you ask for someone to whisper you, and they whisper you, that is neither unsolicited or a bot. If someone sends you a guild invite, itâs usually a person using an addon, not a bot. Most bots would be the ones advertising RMT sites or trying to steal your account info, not the ones sending you guild invites or offering to fill your work order.
And you have zero evidence that they are being automated or doing anything illegal.
Weâre on the same side when it comes to bots = bad, the part where itâs different is youâre trying to define things that arenât botting as botting when BLIZZARD already defined it, they made the rules and they enforce the rules.
âThey arenât banning people for bottingâ when they arenât botting, thatâs what the OP is on about. If people arenât being actioned, they arenât being reported OR they are being reported and are found to be innocent.
By their definitions, if they find they werenât botting, they wonât get banned. Your interpretation of their definition doesnât make it ban-worthy, only their definition does.