Big Bot Tracker

Big Bot Tracker helps you spot chatters who behave like automated Trade or Services advertisers.

It watches Trade and Services chat, looks for repeated timing and message patterns, and shows a ranked report with evidence for each suspicious character.

Big Bot Tracker does not prove that someone is botting. It does not automatically report players, send accusations, block chat, or post anything publicly. It gives you a clear evidence report so you can decide what to do.

What It Tracks

Repeated Trade and Services messages
How often a character posts
How regular their posting interval is
Whether their messages reuse the same template
Whether similar ads cluster even when words are rearranged
Whether their cadence changes between multiple regular schedules
Whether their behavior is unusual compared with the current monitored channel
How long the behavior has been observed
Whether other Big Bot Tracker users have shared matching evidence

The Report

Open the report with /bbt.

The main table shows:

Character-realm
Suspicion tier
Score
Confidence
First seen
Last seen
Message count
Posts per hour
Average interval
Cadence
Template reuse
Local/network evidence marker

Selecting a character shows more detail, including first seen, first suspected, active days, interval consistency, top interval buckets, robust timing variation, cadence switches, near-duplicate messages, evidence-family scores, current-channel baseline comparison, network sightings, network overlap context, and the top reasons behind the score.

Critical candidates also show a report button in the detail panel. It can open Blizzard's in-world report flow when the addon has a valid reportable player location. The addon does not submit reports automatically.

Scores and Confidence

The score is a bot-likelihood signal based only on local chat behavior. Confidence is shown separately so a small amount of evidence does not look as strong as a long-running pattern. Reloading or relogging does not increase score, confidence, or tier.

Big Bot Tracker uses transparent rules, not a black-box model. V1 scoring is grouped into capped evidence families:

Timing regularity
Content similarity
Activity and burst behavior
Persistence across time
Current-channel baseline outliers

High and Critical tiers require multiple local evidence families. A single signal, such as template reuse alone or peer sightings alone, should not make someone look like a strong suspect.

Confidence is based on local message volume, valid interval samples, active observation windows, distinct observed days, and evidence-family diversity. It does not use addon sessions or reload count.

Examples of evidence include:

"Median interval 121s with very low robust variation."
"80% of messages match the top template."
"Similar ad wording clusters even when text is rearranged."
"Cadence changed between stable posting schedules."
"Timing is more regular than 95% of monitored advertisers."

Sync and Privacy

Big Bot Tracker can share compact evidence summaries with other Big Bot Tracker users through a custom addon sync channel. Sync is enabled by default after a first-run notice and can be disabled at any time.

The sync network is not global. It only reaches players who can join the same custom channel, usually people on the same realm or connected realm.

Synced data does not include raw chat text by default. It sends compact evidence such as:

Character-realm
Observation time range
Coarse observation windows
Message count
Timing summary
Template hashes and counts
Shingle cluster hashes and counts
Behavior summary
Anonymous peer ID
Addon/schema/feature version

Network evidence is context only. It does not increase the local score or local confidence because peers may be seeing the same public chat messages.

Commands

/bbt opens the report
/bbt status prints tracked candidate and sync status
/bbt sync on enables sync
/bbt sync off disables sync
/bbt channel NAME changes the custom sync channel
/bbt monitor trade on|off toggles Trade monitoring
/bbt monitor services on|off toggles Services monitoring
/bbt export writes a compact debug summary to BigBotTrackerDB.settings.lastDebugSummary
/bbt clear buffers clears temporary runtime scan buffers
/bbt debug on
/bbt debug off