Banned for "Afking BGs"

[Delimicus-benediction]

May of 2007, the automatic squelch system was introduced:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070528080211/http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/faq/squelch.html

Player reports in Battlegrounds do not automatically suspend other players:

Policy on Battlegrounds Participation

I wanted to take a minute to comment on the recent action, and clarify our policies a bit. We recently discovered a bug in our analytics data that called into question some of these suspensions, and in those cases we will reverse the suspension. Some others were so egregious that we’re still confident in the lack of participation, and those actions will remain in effect, though some will have reduced penalty duration if it was a first-offense. On the larger point about how these suspensions a…

There is no auto-ban:

2 week ban for no reason?

No, there really isn’t. We do have some systems in place that do take some actions automatically, but they aren’t really what you are referring to and have zero to do with this action, which was applied manually after an investigation. Generally, that means doing something in-game that normally cannot be done without some kind of exploitation.