I just got a Redragon M913 to replace my old Razer mouse and while adjusting hotkeys in WoW I noticed a button on the upper left of the mouse face that just seems to cause my character to move forward slightly and jitter when I clicked it. I couldn’t figure out what the key was doing (even tried to assign it to an action to see what the button registered as and it didn’t work) .
I then did the unthinkable and actually red the instructions for the mouse and it turns out it’s a “rapid fire” button that is the same as 3 rapid mouse clicks back to back.
This feels like automation to me which I know is bannable. I went into the mouse software and disabled the key entirely but now I’m worried that the system is going to have seen me clicking it those couple times in Dornogal and I’ll end up with a ban.
Anyone have any insight about the Redragon rapid-fire button and if you’ll get a ban from having pushed one a few times? I’m probably being overly paranoid but that’s pretty much my personality. 
You wont realy get a yes or no from the blues but if u can disable it i would.
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Simply speculation on my part, but I believe a large part of what Blizzard looks at is impact. What can it do, what has it done thus far already. It wasn’t set up to automate spell casting or anything, and while I don’t want to state definitively that taking a few jittery steps in-game would be something to be overly concerned about, botting is a very, very serious battle that they’re involved in. At this time it’s just a wait and see kind of thing.
It is good that you immediately disabled it, however.
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Already did!
Honestly rather annoyed that a gaming mouse has a button like that and it’s enabled by default considering most games don’t allow any forum of automation.
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I’m quite sure if it’s just such few instances and the fact that you’ve disabled it and won’t re-enable it will be taken into account.
I really don’t know why hardware manufacturers keep including these totally illegal macros onto their tools - which is banned in 99% of all multiplayer games (single player tends not to unless you try to mess with online scoreboards)
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Ya generally speaking, unless its an in game macro, 1 button press = 1 action is the rule of thumb.
Rapid fire keys will probably get flagged by Warden so its best to avoid them.
Out of curiosity, I just looked at that mouse. That’s pretty slick. And not a bad price. I just might have to order one.
And I looked at the manual for it. That Rapid Fire button is going to be bad news: one press of that button equals three left mouse clicks. You’ll want to keep that turned off. 
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Once again it’s important to note that bans are done by humans, not by the system. I doubt anyone would even have seen you to report you as botting or anything. And, while definitive answers are hard to give, I’m pretty sure you’ll be fine. You did the responsible thing and disabled it once you realized what it did, people discovering cheats and exploits in the game, either due to developer oversight or new computer hardware, isn’t anything new and to be expected. It’s if the user goes on to use the cheats for personal gain or not. The logs will reflect that you did not do this, so you’ll be fine.
Incidentally, you might want to report the brand of the mouse to the hacks team (was it hacks@blizzard or something? been a while), or possibly legal, I’m sure both teams would enjoy the information. Blizzard has regularly taken legal action against things like this in the past, primarily bot programmers, and of course anything to prevent the button from working in the first place would be under the hacks and dev teams I would think, so yeah.
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This is true, but not all reports are generated by other players in this category.
Warden is always watching.
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True, sort of where the following points about intention reflecting in the logs was pointing at, was a bit more explicit in an earlier draft but didn’t want to muddy the waters too much on the key point (that a human will look at the logs and pick up the intentions, or lack thereof).
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I can’t really think of any real uses you could get out of this in a game like wow. Most things are operated on GCDS, so if it’s just 3 rapid left clicks, I can’t see this doing much other than maybe triggering an autoclicker detection.
But I definitely agree to disable. Whatever slight reward is definitely not worth the risk.
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