Big Bot Tracker

Big Bot Tracker is a World of Warcraft Retail addon that monitors Trade and Services chat for suspicious repeated advertising patterns.

It does not prove that someone is botting. It does not auto-report players, post accusations, block chat, or send public messages. It shows evidence so you can review the pattern yourself.

What It Does

• Watches Trade and Services chat, ignoring your own messages
• Tracks chatters by normalized character-realm
• Promotes local candidates only after signals such as repeated templates, near-duplicate wording, regular timing, or high volume with ad-like behavior
• Shows timing, content reuse, activity, persistence, current-channel baseline, and network context
• Keeps local evidence and network evidence separate
• Uses transparent heuristic scoring, not machine learning or external services

Message count alone is not treated as suspicion. Network sync can create Preliminary network-only entries, but peer evidence does not raise a local score, confidence, or tier.

Report Window

Open the report with /bbt, /bbt open, /bbt show, /bigbottracker, or the addon compartment button.

The table shows character-realm, tier, score, confidence, first/last seen, message count, posts per hour, average interval, cadence, template reuse, and source: Local, Net, or L+N.

Selecting a row shows detail sections for summary, activity, timing, content, evidence families, current-channel baseline, network context, and top evidence reasons. Click headers to sort and hover rows or headers for field explanations.

Critical candidates show a Report button. It opens Big Bot Tracker's report assist and tries to open Blizzard's in-world report flow when a reportable player location is available. You must choose the Blizzard category, review or paste any text, and submit manually.

Other report controls:

• Refresh rebuilds the visible report
• Export saves a compact debug summary in SavedVariables
• Toggle Sync enables or disables evidence sharing
• Clear Buffers clears temporary unpromoted scan buffers
• Purge Selected deletes the selected candidate's saved evidence
• Purge All deletes saved candidate evidence

Scores and Privacy

Local scores are based on capped evidence families: timing regularity, content similarity, activity/bursts, persistence, and current-channel baseline outliers. High and Critical tiers require multiple local evidence families, and confidence depends on local evidence volume and diversity.

The addon does not persist or sync raw chat text. Saved and synced data is compact: identity, observation ranges/windows, counts, timing summaries, template and shingle hashes, behavior summaries, score snapshots, baseline bins, hashed peer IDs, and version fields.

Sync uses the BigBotTracker custom channel by default. On first login, a notice explains sync; OK keeps it enabled, and Disable Sync turns it off. The sync network only reaches players who can join the same custom channel, usually on the same realm or connected realm.

Commands

• /bbt, /bbt open, /bbt show, or /bigbottracker 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

Install

Install via CurseForge, or copy the BigBotTracker folder into your _retail_/Interface/AddOns/ directory.

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Codecrete. All rights reserved.

Big Bot Tracker is proprietary software. The source is visible because World of Warcraft addons must be distributed as visible Lua code, but this project is not open source and does not grant permission to copy, modify, redistribute, rehost, sublicense, or create derivative works without prior written permission.