Trade Bouncer

By
korivash

Simple spam blocker for WoW Forever: hides gold-seller / RMT spam (even scrambled sites) and repeat floods in Trade, General and whispers. No setup (/tb).

Gold sellers out, real trade in. Trade Bouncer quietly hides real-money gold-seller and RMT spam in Trade, General and whispers, even the scrambled ones like "WVVW,U4N,C0M", plus repeat floods. Normal WTS and LFG messages always get through, and guild, party and friends are never touched. No setup: install it and the spam is gone. Type /tb to see what was blocked and why.

Details

Install the TradeBouncer folder in Interface/AddOns and restart the client. Filtering starts automatically on WoW Forever (interface 16001).

Open the small review window with /tb, /tradebouncer, or the shield on the minimap. Drag the shield around the minimap to reposition it.

Trade Bouncer filters public channel messages (including Trade, General, Services and LookingForGroup), Say, Yell and whispers. It combines obfuscated website, currency, gold pricing and sales signals. Guild, party, raid, officer and Battle.net chat events are never filtered. Your own messages, recognized friends, guildmates and allowed senders bypass filtering.

The window has an on/off switch, today's blocked count, the latest 50 blocks, and optional repeat and login-notice switches. Select a row to see the sender, channel, time and reason. Show line displays the full message in the window; click its text and use the arrow keys to read longer messages. Not spam allows that sender. Ignore sender requests a Blizzard ignore. Reset allow list removes your manual allowances.

Custom words are comma separated. Save words replaces the list, so remove a phrase from the box and save to stop blocking it. Custom words match normalized substrings and can block otherwise legitimate messages. Trusted senders still bypass them.

FAQ

Will normal trading be blocked? Ordinary item prices, dungeon groups, gold farming questions and boosts for in-game gold pass the content detector. The default repeat filter hides the same normalized message from the same sender within 20 seconds, including legitimate repeat advertisements. Turn Repeat off if you want those repeats visible.

Does it report or automatically ignore people? No. Filtering only hides messages locally. Ignore sender is a manual action.

Does it print every block? No. The optional login notice is the only chat output. Show line reveals a message inside the review window.

What is saved? TradeBouncerDB stores settings, allowed senders, custom words, minimap position, the local calendar day's count and up to 50 blocked messages. The count resets on the first activity or window refresh after midnight. The log remains until newer entries replace it.

Can it miss spam? Yes. Conservative scoring helps ordinary conversations pass. Use custom words for recurring campaigns and Not spam for false positives. Friend and guild protection depends on the client exposing the corresponding roster information.

Tests

From the addon folder run lua tests/detector_spec.lua or luajit tests/detector_spec.lua. The suite is written for Lua 5.1. See REPORT.md for the execution environment and release limitations.