BadBoy_AutoBlacklist: Remove leveling services spam
If you have spent any time in a major city or browsing the group finder in World of Warcraft, you know the pain: walls of text advertising leveling boosts, mythic carries, and gold sales. These messages flood trade chat, whisper you out of nowhere, and somehow keep coming back no matter how many times you report them. BadBoy_AutoBlacklist: Remove leveling services spam was built to solve exactly this problem, turning BadBoy's spam detection into a self-learning blacklist that hides offenders automatically.
What This Addon Actually Does
BadBoy_AutoBlacklist is a companion addon for the popular BadBoy spam filter. It does not modify BadBoy itself; instead, it watches for players caught spamming and adds them to a persistent blacklist. Once someone is on that list, their messages are hidden on sight across channel, say, yell, whisper, and emote. Even if they completely reword their advertisement later, the addon still recognizes them by GUID and Name-Realm, so their future messages never reach your screen.
The blacklist is persistent, with a 30-day expiry and a 500-entry cap, so you are not starting from scratch every day. This is a huge quality-of-life improvement over filters that reset constantly.
Four Independent Detection Signals
Instant Phrases
You define trigger phrases, and the addon ships seeded with common ones like "pay in raid." Phrases can be plain substrings, such as a boosting-site domain, or Lua patterns prefixed with regex:. Matching runs on normalized text, so symbol, spacing, and casing variants like p@y-in-raid or GOINGNOWPAYINRAID still get caught. Malformed patterns are rejected when you add them.
Detector and Mutating Repeaters
Spam already flagged by BadBoy and its modules counts toward blacklisting repeat offenders, with two detections in ten minutes triggering action. Mutating repeaters, players who reword the same ad to slip past BadBoy's exact repeat buffer, are caught through near-identical repeat detection.
Crew Detection
Coordinated multi-account spam is a real headache. Similar messages from different characters accumulate score, and byte-identical ads from different accounts count double. Rotating boost crews typically get caught within one or two rotations.
Options and Commands
Everything is managed through the /badboy options panel in the BadBoy_AutoBlacklist section. You can enable or disable the addon, hide whispers, toggle chat notices, and sync with BadBoy_Ignore to auto-feed its infinite ignore list. Sensitivity presets range from Relaxed to Maximum, so you can tune how aggressive the filter behaves. Blocked phrases are managed by typing one and pressing +/- to add or remove it, with a hover tooltip showing the current list. Per-player removal and a clear-list option are also available.
- Friends, guildies, party and raid members, and GMs are never auto-blacklisted.
- Everything is reviewable and undoable from the panel.
- Reports are never sent automatically; Blizzard still requires your final click.
- Commands: /badboy for options, /bbauto for status and a full self-test.
If you want a frictionless setup, the foxygame.net launcher offers one-click installation of BadBoy_AutoBlacklist: Remove leveling services spam alongside its curated addon catalog, so you skip manual folder juggling entirely.
Compatibility Across WoW Versions
BadBoy_AutoBlacklist: Remove leveling services spam for World of Warcraft supports the major game versions players actually use: Retail, Classic, The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, Cataclysm, and Mists of Pandaria. Because it hooks into BadBoy rather than replacing it, compatibility follows BadBoy's own version support. The addon requires BadBoy to function, and BadBoy_Ignore is optional but unlocks the sync feature. The code is MIT licensed and built as an independent third-party companion by Funkeh, not affiliated with BadBoy's original author.
How to Install
Learning how to install is straightforward. Download BadBoy_AutoBlacklist: Remove leveling services spam from your preferred addon source, extract it into your World of Warcraft Interface/AddOns folder, and make sure BadBoy is installed alongside it. Restart the client, open the options panel with /badboy, and configure your sensitivity and blocked phrases. Within a few minutes of play, the blacklist starts doing its job quietly in the background.
Final Thoughts
Leveling service spam is one of the most persistent annoyances in World of Warcraft chat. BadBoy_AutoBlacklist: Remove leveling services spam tackles it with layered detection, a persistent blacklist, and sensible safety rules that protect your friends and guildmates. If you are tired of manually reporting the same boost ads every session, this addon is a practical, low-maintenance solution worth adding to your interface.
===ARTICLE===