Bot Hunt: catch bots, climb the board

Bot Hunt is a small addon that spots gold spammers and farming bots, helps you report them, and ranks you as a bot hunter. Here are the realm totals and the Hunters who chose to be on the board.

Realm totals

No Bot Hunt numbers yet. They start when hunters with the Uploader send their first hunt.

Hunters

Only hunters who turned on "Show me on the Bot Hunt leaderboard", by their in-game name.

No hunter on the board has points this week yet.

How it works

• Bot Hunt spots gold spam in chat, letters and invites, and players farming one spot for hours. It never reports anyone by itself: a small card asks you, out of combat.
• Report opens Blizzard's own report window for that player. Addons can't send reports, so you pick the reason and press Send there.
• 1 point for each report you send. 5 points when a bot you reported is likely removed: they used to be about regularly, and you haven't seen them for 7 days or more while you played on at least 3 of those days. If they turn up again, the 5 points go back.
• The ForeverDB Uploader sends what the addon saved after you play, when the Uploader is linked to your ForeverDB account. The realm totals count a reported bot as likely removed when no hunter who saw them, and no ForeverDB addon that met them, has seen them for 7 days or more while those hunters played on at least 3 of those days.

Ranks

Rookie Tracker (0 points), Deputy (5 points), Bot Hunter (15 points), Marshal (40 points), Legendary Bounty Hunter (100 points)

Your privacy, and theirs

• Nobody you flag is ever named. Gold spam often comes from hacked accounts of real players, so the names of the players you flag stay on your PC. The Uploader sends only a character code from the game's player number, and ForeverDB keeps only a scrambled version of that code.
• The Hunters board is opt-in. You're on it only with "Show me on the Bot Hunt leaderboard" turned on in the addon, and only by your in-game name. Never your BattleTag. Turn it off and your name goes from the board with your next upload.
• Realm totals are anonymous. They add up everyone's counts without a name. Turn off "Add my counts to the realm totals" in the addon and yours are left out.

Get Bot Hunt

Bot Hunt is coming soon on CurseForge and Wago. It works on its own, and alongside the ForeverDB addon.

Gold-selling websites and spam per realm: gold-seller and bot tracker.