Just create a new channel just for boosting and force every boosting service out of Trade channel. That way whoever wants to join the boosting channel can do so, and those who don’t won’t see the spam. This will clean up Trade channel without unnecessary convoluted rules.
Any boosting ads in Trade channel or outside the designated boosting channel will result in immediate 30 day ban from WoW, and 2nd violation will be account termination.
Boosters would still use Trade. All that would do is give them an extra channel in which to spam.
They won’t if the punishment is severe, as I’ve suggested.
This would have made too much sense
Demonstrably, this doesn’t work.
Folks are punished for advertising in Group Finder. It’s been black and white against the rules for some time.
Yet, whatever the punishments are, they don’t work.
That’s why they went to the Authenticator requirement, with the premise that it would reduce hacked accounts. Which suggests punishment is, again, not effective.
“Oh no, I lost my hacked account.”
I can’t say the new policy will be any better, but, ideally, now they can go against the folks behind the scenes and not the drones spamming the ads.
Since the “communities” are now illegal, maybe they can ban the lot of them.
A company will not change their policy so soon, due to one forum post.
I stated this on another thread. What if Blizzard banned any adversting for boosting services in any of the in-game chat channels and the LFG tool?
Boosting wouldn’t necessarily be banned. The one looking for the boost would have to seek it out.
If they weren’t using throw away accounts… sure.
Like what, bans? That’s never stopped them, ever.
They just make throwaway accounts.
They make so much gold anyway that they don’t care about using a token here and there to sub on a new account.
Blizzard won’t because that change would be essentially endorsing boosting, which is currently at your own risk.
If you get scammed out of a boost (that is, either your booster runs away with your gold or you don’t receive any payment from a boostie), Blizzard will not intervene in any way.
Making a dedicated channel for boosting would force Blizzard to endorse it in some fashion, and they don’t seem to want that.
You seem familiar. Do I know you? 
The second sentence is true. The first is an assumption on your part.
Which people have not complained about for years. So how big a problem has it been recently, since nobody complained about being hacked or unfairly punished?
Complaints are always about something that happened years ago.
How about the fact that they removed the ability of sub 50 levelers to use the premade tab in the group finder, ostensibly to prevent level 1’s from posting spam ads in the group finder. Nobody noticed even a blip of difference in the spam, but levelers are still unable to use the group finder to form groups to do elite quests.
It’s hard to see what the truth is. Maybe they had some other reason to try to get more players to use authenticators, since it seems that advertisers were buying theirs legitimately. And maybe they wanted levelers to have to solo all the elite quests. Because, um, reasons?
They can. They always had lots of options but appear to have chosen courses of action that were ineffective at curbing ads.
Will the new requirements be enforced?
The ones who advertise in group finder are rmt advertisers you specifically won’t see discord communities advertising there.
Great way to lose a ton of subs for sure 
^ You guys always say this yet this supposed ded game is still here and thriving lmao.
If it was thriving they wouldn’t be resorting to mobile design tactics and fomo. Heavy fomo content only really started when subs started to nosedive.
I don’t know that they have in the past. In the past it seems they can only go after the accounts that are spamming.
To quote the blue sticky:
The highlights are from me. This is like a RICO statute.
You’ll note they’re not banning organizations from advertising, they’re banning the organizations, AND the accounts that make up such organization, outright.
It’s no longer “report the spammer, spammer get hammered, break out the new spammer”.
They’re going after the organizations themselves. “now prohibit organizations who offer boosting,…”. They don’t have to advertise on WoW, they can advertise on discord or anything else and still be in violation.
Again, who knows if it will do anything. But before, while certainly Blizzard can ban anyone at anytime for anything, this behavior of organizing to sell services was not explicitly banned. Now it is.
Lol maybe xD