No afking just were under the shower and walking my dog after while remotecontrol jumping my character!
Ok jokes aside… Happens. Dont do av. 39 people can just wipe you out… or just dont do it on bonus weekends
AV weekend is the worst, horde get their arses kicked and turn savage on each other for not all just zerging to van. Get mass reported for doing any objectives to get more honor. Had a friend get 8 day banned for having a slow mount b/c it took him to long to get to van and got mass reported.
I’m not defending this behavior, but how does someone still have a 60% mount at level 70? 
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I just dont see how someone can be reported AFK if they are actually NOT AFK… If your moving around, you cant be reported. Unless I am missing something here…
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Naivety.
Never underestimate the power of sympathy-fishing.
Sometimes people just want to feel like they’ve been done an injustice even when they know the truth. It’s a historically well known form of gas lighting that is extremely common especially on the internet.
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The more proper term that Blizzard uses is “non participation”. If you are just standing around not contributing to the BG team, then you are guilty of this.
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Maybe, maybe not. Literally within this thread is a link to a blue responding to another player confused on why they got actioned in a similar fashion to the OP and the Blue’s logic raises my eyebrows about how they approach actioning people so his story, while possibly fabricated, is not implausible.
But feel free pretend you’re all knowing about everyone’s intentions. I’ll reiterate this again for all of you.
Edit: and just to reiterate on the link, as I recall, the poster claimed he never AFK’d but defended towers (which ultimately can lead to potentially inactivity) and the Blue went out of his way to acknowledge that if the rest of the playerbase didn’t agree with that strategy that is grounds enough to require an investigation and possible ban.
So you can all sit here and act like it’s totally crazy for people to think Blizzard is going overboard and it’s just an upset cheater getting caught but we have a Blue acknowledging that they’re not banning people solely for AFK inactivity. Do something your team thinks is invaluable and get actioned.
Yes I still think people that are sent to jail after being proven guilty still have a plausible argument they are in fact innocent.
Non participation even if not AFK has always been grounds for being actioned.
Pretty unlikely given these policies have had to change with the times based on how people have been playing.
Certainly actioning people for defending is a new one considering at one point in retail (probably still active) they gave people defending a flag a buff to honor gains to give players incentive to defend rather than always play offense for the best honor.
Well back in the day blizzard actually had GM’s in game and less automated systems who could tell the difference between someone actually defending vs just avoiding afking out but it was still considered actionable to actively avoid playing the BG.
Customer service reps have said this is actually a pretty popular. People might not go full AFK but they do things like run back and forth between objectives, run on foot instead of on mount, “defend”, etc.
All of these are actionable and they should be. So, while these people might be telling the truth, they might not have been “AFK”, they could still be non-participating in other ways.
The bans are justified or else Blizzard would have lifted them during the appeal process.
“DEFENDING Dreks room”
That’s a nice way of saying you afked
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Actively avoiding and intentionally and repeatedly defending specific PvP objectives regardless of how much action that spot sees in any given game are two different things though.
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Which is exactly what i said.
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