.ticket onlinelist; .ticket online
I've recently assisted in a great increase in people spamming ".ticket onlinelist" and ".ticket online" constantly in guild chats (many toons, many guilds on both alliance and horde) side.
They just keep spamming those two commands constantly in guild chats and nothing else.
At first I tried to contact them, because I thought it was maybe a wrong addon or macro spamming the message continuously.
But none of the toons contacted ever replied. They don't answer to messages, they don't accept party or raids invites, they just keep spamming those 2 messages in guild chat.
This is the typical behavior of a bot.
I searched online for those 2 commands and both are GMs commands, they are used to look for and reply to tickets, but it seems pretty strange to me that an active character, even if used by a GM, would never reply to whispers or interact with other players at all.
I tried to file a ticket online saying that I suspected one of them of being a bot (I didn't have screenshots at the time), and the GM answered that they have "insufficient info" to ban said toon for botting.
That answer seemed strange to me and I interpreted it as a confirmation that those toons spamming commands are not in fact GMs: if a GM were receive a ticket about another GM, wouldn't he just recognize that he is in fact a GM? I guess he would have replied something more like "that's not a bot command, its a GM" or something.
Now, I wouldn't have made this post if it wasn't for a sharp increase in the last month I saw about those, which made me think that it could be a new kind of bot or something.