Botting Allowed now?

Someone is going to step in and address your reports, just not right away. You are not the only one reporting bots. Your report goes into a queue like everyone else’s. Blizzard isn’t going to ban someone just because you reported them for botting. If that were true everyone would have been banned at some point and appeals would take months. They need to investigate and verify first. Someone “looked” like they were botting is not going to survive an appeal.

Whack-a-mole banning of bots doesn’t improve things, it makes the problem worse. Someone wrote out why this is a bad solution in a previous thread. Check out post 24 from:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/dozens-of-skinning-bots-printing-gold-in-foxhollow-woods/776046/24

Edit:
I’ve seen the suspected bots in Moonglade. I reported a bunch of them. You don’t need to report them all, just a selection to give Blizzard a number of data-points to work with. Blizzard’s priority is going to be to determine how the bot works, how they can break it, and how they can detect it so that a ban-wave will get most of those bottters and not just the ones who were reported.

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