You should not have said anything, because now these worms have been warned… You would be better served to change your post and threat title to avoid warning these filth.
One AFK does not warrant a 6 month ban by any stretch of the imagination. But head it off by voluntarily doing /afk if you have to step away and want to avoid a ban.
However, a pattern of doing it nearly every game either means you shouldn’t be playing AV or you deserve a ban.
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Not since Blizz nerfed AFK reporting.
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Coward for admitting something from ~15 years ago?
I got caught shoplifting in a target 15 years ago…Learned my lesson 
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As a semi-pro non-participant lately I’m curious what the ban would be against, truly. Anymore I boycott AV by entering and leeching. I’m there moving, using abilities, and sorta paying attention. I paid my sub, I can play how I want. It’d be like blizzard banning bads or the people who sit in Ironforge.
Nice try, give me a wave in AV the next time you see me standing there. I’ll wave back!
A lot of people say ban when they mean suspended, but it does actually happen. Shocking, I know.
Good to know. Apparently, we need to report for “disruptive gameplay.”
Ahh, you see this person was abusing the reporting system. Could lead to innocents being muted. Very disruptive behavior. Simply not participating in fighting is not disruptive.
You are missing the point.
In those situations
- you wont be doing it repeatedly, Every BG you enter (I hope)
- you will either be back quick, or you will simply AFK out
- you are not taking any active measures to circumvent AFKing out
No one would ban you for AFKing out of that one BG back in September when you had a bout of bad diarrhea.
But, if i observed you consistently being non participatory in multiple successive BG’s, i might wack you with a ban hammer, were i a GM
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Yes, it is, and you are part of the problem.
*read the blue responses.
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Conscientious objector
This is not a world human rights movement, it is a PVP game.
To conscientiously object, you dont log in.
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I’ll use words that Blizz likes to use quite frequently, but beyond gameplay disruption not participating in a BG “goes against the spirit of the game”. So while I doubt they’ll automate detecting and suspending those players, I’d be willing to bet they’ll take action on players that get reported and are confirmed to be afking in the BG, or at the very least do what they used to do and whisper people to warn them before giving them the boot. They did indeed used to do this because this was a problem back in Vanilla, too. Of course they could be going the “save money on CS” route and just ignore it, but it wouldn’t be groundbreaking behavior if they actioned people for it.
imagine if blizzard did ban all the bots in classic? that would be like half the people that que bgs
I would always giggle at the people in vanilla who would try to rage on a GM who whispered them, and then stand like deer in headlights when they suddenly got punted.
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Say, then you would have a lot more real players in allied BG’s
Maybe not good players, but anything is better than a bot.
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I agree that people should be allowed to change, make amends, and be forgiven.
However, don’t characterize that as a mistake. That was a purposeful choice. One that people are making even now and which harms the people who are honestly trying to win a BG.
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Most mistakes are
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So you’re saying that…rumour has it? 
I hope so. We’ve got two afk cave botters on my server at the moment (most likely by the same person in a guild known for botting) that are sitting in AV and stealing rank from others. We have others who bot of course. These two are just the most proficient and have things like 200 kills and 320,000 honor in a week. These characters are not played at all otherwise and 90% chance the plan is to sell them and the account holder clearly thinks they can get away with it.
Granted anyone who can spend a SIGNIFICANT period of time in BGs can beat the AV afk botters but that’s the only way.
Mistakes are choices, generally. Otherwise I would have used the word accident.
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