Yes and it’s expected that when the community does its job and reports that blizzard actually follows up on it.
I’d have to assume they do. That’s the lowest hanging fruit for them so it wouldn’t make sense not to. I’ll allow its probably not always done efficiently or timely enough… but then you also gotta figure they’ve probably got what… thousands of reports a day to filter through, most of them frivolous.
Yes, don’t be someone’s tool; especially don’t be Blizzard’s tool. Realize that you’re being used and that you’ll never be compensated for your effort.
Its the military industio complex run by the Illuminati Elite! I saw it on the internet they’re turning the frogs gay!
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So what your telling me is that I should start hitting because blizzard won’t do anything about it?
Just stop. Your faux indignation over “nonsensical” tickets is stupid. Players have ALWAYS submitted what you consider “nonsensical” tickets even when there were 12 million people playing this game. And guess what? They managed to answer them. 
No one’s going to even read a ticket about whether there are in game GM’s or not - let alone respond to it. I don’t believe they even look at half the tickets. The sad fact is the CS at Blizzard is bare bones . . . understaffed and underpaid. Oh. And there are no in game GM’s.
Is not.
Nope. I’m completely right. But it’s not like you’ll get an answer by asking here, or even on Blizzard’s precious, precious twitter. If you haven’t noticed, the people at Blizzard have as little to do with the players as possible. And it’s not like you’ll get an answer even if you do gasp open up a nonsensical ticket.
The way I want them to?? Like, you know, removing them from the game? Banning their account?
That wasn’t made by me. That was one of the hundred or so players that reported the same fly hack for over a month. It’s not like the video wasn’t enough.
See, here’s the thing about in game GM’s (and what WoW used to have). They have tools to instantly see anywhere and everywhere in the game. They can see chat. They see in any instance. They can go underground and up in the air. They can find any player anywhere. They can see in your bags and your bank.
All an in game GM needs is a name. Boom. They instantly find the person in question and instantly see they’re fly hacking. But for weeks and months there are hundreds of these bots/hacks all over the game. And with all that, people still try to claim that we have these in game GM’s instead of a handful of bedraggled CS staff.
Your diatribe about the differences between bots and hacks is totally irrelevant. Unless, of course, you’re suggesting that a GM actually looked at this and said, “Oh that’s a real player that’s fly hacking not a bot, so he’s fine.”
Based on what? The lightning speed by which these bots/hacks disappear? 
Amazing how low you’ll stoop with your rhetoric to defend being an unpaid moderator. Keep doing it for free, Blizzard appreciates it. They’ll never actually say it or show it, but you’re working so hard on their behalf that it must be true; it just has to be true.
I’m hardly a Blizzard shill. I disagree with them on any number of things. That doesn’t mean I buy into yalls crackpot theories about how its all a conspiracy covered up expertly by the CM’s at Blizzard making $10/hr.
Stop replying to me, and I will.
Not false. I’m, legitimately, annoyed with those that place Tickets that shouldn’t even be entertained, in the first place. You’re entitled to think it’s “stupid”. I don’t. That’s the beauty of opinions.
Yes, IK this. We, also, have different systems in place compared to back then which causes more issues with their Ticket System.
I hope not.
Doesn’t surprise me.
Again, considering the state of the world, it’s not that simple.
Even if there’s one single in-game GM, that one single in-game GM makes this statement false.
It is. If it wasn’t, that wouldn’t be a concern.
No, you’re not.
IK. Finding that out is really important. Maybe even moreso than getting rid of Bots.
I haven’t noticed because I don’t try to have conversations with the Company as often as people like you seem to do.
And, you know this because…? Is it because you’ve tried? And, you think this doesn’t add more Ticket traffic? LOL
Responding within “less than a month”.
It’s not, neither are undetailed tickets.
Kind of like in the Video? 
(puts on tinfoil hat) 
I (specifically) made no such claim. Just that they’re dealing with more than we know.
Not really. I think it’s important to note the differences between the different types of cheating going on, so they can be dealt with accordingly.
That’s not what I said, at all LOL I said, it doesn’t look like a Bot, to me. But, somebody definitely cheating the system by utilizing Fly Hacking mechanics. I’m not going to call it a “Bot”, though.
Right back at ya.
Noone is claiming there’s some crazy conspiracy theory, what’s being claimed is that blizzard doesn’t care enough about bots to staff and enforce anti botting properly.
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“Hey, Blizzard should do more to combat cheating and I feel like there’s probably a profit motive at play”
Certain people in this thread:
“This man is clearly a crackpot”
I’m just going to leave this here and then I’m done.
Bobby Kotick made over 30 million dollars last year. He made over 32 million dollars the year before. Activision/Blizzard is neither struggling nor poor. So yes, given the state of the company, it really is that simple.
It really isn’t that simple. I can’t discuss unrelated WoW things here (on these forums). All I can say is, given the state of the world, it’s not that simple.
Clearly, you are talking about the Ethiopian federal forces entering the city of Mekelle. Now that the TPLF leaders have abandoned the city it’s easy to see why Blizzard cannot hire more staff.
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Clearly LOL
Ok… and I agree they could do better… But the CM’s have made posts where they claim that they “walk over to their buddies and ask them how many people they’ve banned and its in the thousands…” So either thats the reality and yall are wrong about there not being any live GM presence… or those forum moderators, who are apparently overworked and underpaid, are just making up elaborate stories about their day in order to protect Blizzard from your opinions…
Some things blizzard could implement to flag players to be inspected by an actual GM, but of course this would require Blizzard to actually employ GMs to manage the classic servers.
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If an account has been logged in past a certain amount of time. Remember, I said this would flag them for inspection by a GM, not be some auto thing so take it into account.
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If an account has players in a specific area past a certain amount and the time for this is measured in total player time in that area, not just time in that session.
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If a specific IP address has multiple accounts logged in, whether simultaneously just rotating or with an auto-flag to check if they are using a proxy or VPN address.
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If a person has been flagged, give the GM the authority to message them and see how they respond. Seen a few who auto respond some canned response and some auto log out after giving it (Then another bot will suddenly come to the same area to resume farming and give the same canned response when message.
But all of this still boils down to blizzard actually employing GMs to their classic servers and honestly, I get better response times on a private server doing a major holiday then I do during prime game time on the classic servers.
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I fish Nightfin Snapper with my UI turned off while watching streams.
Forums: “Blizzard lies and you can’t trust them!”
Forums: “We want Blizzard to exert more control over players in-game!”
Crazy world.
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By giving them the authority to message you, that would include to do it in a way that addons can’t hide and still would revolve around how you responded. Like if you responded by immediately logging off and logging onto another account or give some canned response.
If the GM decided to basically remove your ability to do anything till you responded, you would notice it as well. Bots largely would not.