Being referred to as a bot?

[monksicle]

So long story short i decided to give wow another ***** but this time obviously with a bot, I believe ive taken the necessary precautions etc im currently in a lvl 25 guild with real life mates, 1 of whom knows what i am up to, i never bot AFK either. so today im just happily going about my business and my mate pm's me asking "hey are you botting right now" ... me being there ofcourse says "umm botting? im leveling dude whats up"

i could be over paranoid right now, but do blizzard by any chance monitor chats? i would imagin it would be a colossal job for them to do this? he would never report me or anything but yeh... Am i being way to paranoid? :/

 

[fpsware]

So long story short i decided to give wow another ***** but this time obviously with a bot, I believe ive taken the necessary precautions etc im currently in a lvl 25 guild with real life mates, 1 of whom knows what i am up to, i never bot AFK either. so today im just happily going about my business and my mate pm's me asking "hey are you botting right now" ... me being there ofcourse says "umm botting? im leveling dude whats up"

i could be over paranoid right now, but do blizzard by any chance monitor chats? i would imagin it would be a colossal job for them to do this? he would never report me or anything but yeh... Am i being way to paranoid? :/

As far as we are aware they do not actively monitor chat, but they do ofcause have the ability to look up previous conversations. I've had lenghtly in-game chats with guildmates about botting and nothing has come of it, ofcase I was on accounts I didn't care for.

 

[crossover25]

I got banned because of this I believe. I botted no problems casually for 6 months no probems. Just to level not farm anything, and my friend asked me in our casual real life friend guild if I was botting, I said wtf is botting... Anyways next day at 4 am I got a perma ban

 

[haktrix]

dont ave to trawl though all the chats them self a simple word catcher that when certain words are used flag account for checking of there chat log same as the adult word sensor just with account flagging

 

[Altoids]

It's like when a friend of mine who just got his bot told me over a wsp, "using glue with no problems" (we had read about the crashes before and he was just trying it out). I just ignored the comment and chatted back something about his toon... and then texted his phone not to use ANY bot phrases via in game chat... lol

 

[Non Quixote]

So long story short i decided to give wow another ***** but this time obviously with a bot, I believe ive taken the necessary precautions etc im currently in a lvl 25 guild with real life mates, 1 of whom knows what i am up to, i never bot AFK either. so today im just happily going about my business and my mate pm's me asking "hey are you botting right now" ... me being there ofcourse says "umm botting? im leveling dude whats up"

i could be over paranoid right now, but do blizzard by any chance monitor chats? i would imagin it would be a colossal job for them to do this? he would never report me or anything but yeh... Am i being way to paranoid? :/

PB's archy bot was detected because it was spamming coordinates to a chat channel. Just sayin'.

 

[AtticusG3]

PB's archy bot was detected because it was spamming coordinates to a chat channel. Just sayin'.

That's a lot different to human conversation.

 

[Non Quixote]

That's a lot different to human conversation.

So you're saying that the devs at Blizz could write a script to catch numbers but not words?

 

[AtticusG3]

single words are a lot harder to follow than automated posting of strings. The output of a program follows more rigid patterns, so it's much easier to setup a rule to catch and log it. Just like Spam Filters in your email.

 

[justicero]

then your friend reported you, thre's no way blizzard checks for words like "bot" if so i would chat with the word bot everyday with friends to troll blizzard.

actually my friend with this linux syntax you can parse folders, files, and others:

find . | xargs grep 'bot' - and it will show you in which file what line it is used the world bot so ... be carefully, they don't even need to go on 1 TB logs just only to the right line where this command point them

 

[Non Quixote]

single words are a lot harder to follow than automated posting of strings. The output of a program follows more rigid patterns, so it's much easier to setup a rule to catch and log it. Just like Spam Filters in your email.

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that a complex and changeable string with multiple variables is easier to catch than a static word like "bot".

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. By the way, I can set my spam filters to catch the word "bot" pretty easily.