Being Called A Botter

[Kerwin]

If your not guilty and you come to the forums to complain, that's not what you should do for being harassed.

If you guilty and you come to the forums to complain, you are an attention seeker looking to quell your bottling guilt.

Either way, coming to the forums about this topic will bring no good from it.

[KyteStones]

If your not guilty and you come to the forums to complain, that's not what you should do for being harassed.

If you guilty and you come to the forums to complain, you are an attention seeker looking to quell your bottling guilt.

Either way, coming to the forums about this topic will bring no good from it.

I came here in hopes of hearing from other people who have had an issue similar to this. Blacklisting and reporting in my opinion, have done no good for I have some people on my black list I know have done wrong, have screen shots, have video I've recorded and there they are, running around limsa like nothing ever happened, but i digress. Thank you for the post though.

I guess in a way you were right. i am seeking attention. Attention on if this is something normal now with all the bots and rmts.

[Mugiawara]

Not many will have a story to tell because no one has been called a bot and harassed for 3 hours. You should of cleared the whole bot thing
by even responding back. Hunts, they don't even aggro unless you tagged first...You could of accidentally done that.
But no one knows 100% but you, the other people, and the great baby Jesus.
You should just get on with your life at this rate. If it's THAT bad, you can move servers.
I don't like reading one person side, and that's all we can base anything off on.
If anything I'll guess the accidental pull of a hunt, and there we go. Name and shame in hunts
are not unheard of but that bot part is weird lol. So yeah.

[ShadowYomi]

I think the most logical answer is that you probably completed a fate they needed and they may have shouted to hold the fate and you didn't. Not trying to pick a side but I have seen arguements over people missing fates for books.

[Radkat]

We are all only hearing one side of the story. We need to hear from those who were there at the time to share their side of the story. I do agree all this sounds suspicious. Lots of people do fates with no problem, people also accidentally body pull hunts all the time. They don't get called out for botting just like that.

[Gillionaire]

Mmmmhm.

It's odd that they would even confront you thinking that you're a bot in the first place.
When I see a botter, I don't bother with it because I know I won't get a response back.

So, if all these people are sending you /tells they KNOW you're on the keyboard, otherwise, why would they even send you a /tell in the first place?

So this brings me to the point where people's suspicions arose.

Did people see your odd behavior on the day of the incident and suddenly decided that you're a bot? I don't think so.
People probably had suspicions of a botter for a few days, and when they found out that the person was playing, they probably found that the time to confront.

So, what this tell me is, there must've been a time frame where they tried the /trade, tried the /tell and you responded differently.

That's the only thing that would give me a confirmation. If somebody doesn't respond to /tells for hours on end while playing, and all of a sudden is replying to my /tells the next day saying he's not a bot etc.. That's what would confirm my suspicions.

Consistently being silent is less suspicious of being a bot, than somebody who's complete quiet one day, then chatty the next.

[Werhusky]

Consistently being silent is less suspicious of being a bot, than somebody who's complete quiet one day, then chatty the next.

Im a bot I have moods Joke aside I agree.
A /tell only makes sense if you expect a response. I simply blacklist and report (if in mood for a report because a lot people are not worth the effort).
As a solution idk... are you in a FC? Make friends, join linkshells, join some other partyfinders, go into Duty finder, be chatty and show yourself. If all that doesnt help and the harassment goes on server transfer is really the last solution.
And if you only join the real no-lifers that grind hunts all day you prove you are no bot.

I hope your issue gets solved soon good luck there and if need be our FC on Cerby is a very welcoming one

[myahele]

I heard of stories of people multiboxing and blatantly botting and even bragging about it a few month back.

So maybe other people thought he was truly botting and trolling others

[Noshpan]

Giving the OP the benefit of the doubt: just report them for harassment.

While I haven't had this happen to me yet, but I keep expecting it to happen, but many years ago (I think before Wrath of the Lich King released), I decided to level up fishing on my Blood Elf Hunter. I was in the Barrens, fishing from the lake near the Wailing Caverns cave entrance. I was specifically fishing for deviate fish because it was going for a lot on Crushridge at the time. (Plus, I also wanted to level up Cooking.) While I was fishing, some random comes along, tries to block my bobber, then threatens to report me for botting if I didn't respond to them. I reported them for harassment. Now if they had asked "Hey, how long you've been here? Whatcha doin'?" I would have responded. However, I don't respond to rude tells.

Plus, at that time, there was a trend of some trolls reporting legitimate players for botting (simply to remove competition).

Stuff like that has made me a bit paranoid about stuff like the above happen, so I don't respond to tells from people that I don't know.

[magdahmhara]

Sounds to me like you pissed someone off and they told people you're a bot. Then they told people, and they told people, ect. Since you stayed in the same area for hours, some people just assumed you were botting. They probably didn't even bother to investigate it or anything. It doesn't take much for people to believe the worst. Sorry this is happening and if it continues to interfere in your enjoyment of the game you might just be better off switching servers. I would try riding it out for bit first. Hopefully everyone will find something else to grab their attention.