No, there isn’t a way to crosspost (they don’t want spam). Your title and post isn’t super helpful like this (you could rename it the same as your original thread):
But here, if someone from Blizzard reads this:
For more than a year there has been a botting server based somewhere in Asia (the data centres are Korean but the lobbies are written/coded in Chinese).
This server seems to host dozens of simultaneous custom lobbies using numerous newly created accounts to hold them open permanently by sitting in Spectator. Always to 0 players, and always more than 30 lobbies. Sometimes there are an many as 50 of these bot lobbies open at a time (I counted once out of curiosity).
The lobbies are always started by the same 2 accounts, then handed over to the new account bots to keep the lobby up, presumably to protect the original accounts from reports.
The accounts aren’t hard to find as you can see who makes a lobby originally but because of the way Overwatch designs its report system, you need to have an encounter history with these accounts to report them.
One is pretty nondescript, An account named Jiaban with a default new account icon, the other is called Omishhnf with the gold soldier anniversary icon.
They always host a workshop code “PVE” that somehow bypasses the game’s internal custom game filters too (i.e. they all have workshop code in them but will often show up in the list even when specifically filtering out workshop content).
Seriously why is this still not addressed? Why have these main accounts still not been banned? They haven’t changed at all since this started more than a year ago, it’s impossibly easy to find them. For a game that supposedly cares so much about wasted bandwidth, they sure let a lot of serverhoggers run about.
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