Have you not seen what they post? If there were moderators on this forum they would be in trouble
Cleaning up old posts! 
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Blizzard is a small independent company they can’t afford to have moderators.
Unironically true, a blue said a few weeks ago the moderation team got gutted in the layoffs and they are struggling to keep up.
They should just deputize some of the MVPs and let them keep the forum clean.
Most games have player moderators for their forums/discords, it’s only really the big corporations that have paid moderators.
They should have player GMs flying around in-game banning bots or at least flagging them for the paid GMs so that it puts them at the front of the queue. You know, like RuneScape does.
That worked really well for reddit, no one took advantage of the power to ban everyone who disagreed with them about anything
That’s because Reddit doesn’t moderate the moderators.
Obviously they’d have to have very clear guidelines and police their player mods.
They can’t moderate the forums, how will they moderate the moderators?
If they have 5 paid moderators have 25 unpaid ones.
Those 5 paid ones monitor 5 unpaid ones each.
Moderating 5 people is a lot easier than moderating 5,000 people.
Says the guy with a name like that 
No… GDKP promotes gold buying.
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Is the irony in the room with us right now?
GDKP ruined pugging entirely. It should be gone forever. Anyone who likes GDKP is either a Mage farmer or a gold buyer, that’s it.
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I don’t support gdkp’s or even argue they should be added back. I prefer raiding in a guild with my friends and not a pug gdkp.
I think banning them was stupid though. Ban gdkp’s to “stop undetectable gold laundering”. Then allow tens of thousands of bots to farm 24/7, and only issue 2 week bans to the 1% of gold buyers that gets caught. The best way to launder RMT gold before and after the ban is still the same - use a burner account.
Not a single person that bought gold before the gdkp ban stopped. And Some people that would rely on their gdkp cuts from RMT gold buyers that would never buy gold, have started doing so after the gdkp ban.
I’m fine if they stay banned. But anyone arguing the ban helped stop RMT or bots is not very smart. They drove more pug players to join guilds, or quit the game.
FTFY…
Given the 2 options of:
-farm gold for 10 hours to make 1k gold
-Spend $10 and get 1k gold and a 1% chance of a 2 week ban
I’d bet 99% of gold buyers would admit they’re lazy and don’t enjoy farming gold for 20 hours a week just so they can raid with the boys and parse. Most wow players are lazy and when presented with this option that blizz has given them, easy to see why so many buy gold.
You and the few posters I have had several back and forth with are more concerned with insulting gold buyers and banning gdkp’s, than you are with blizz stepping up and actually policing their own game. Your side has countless posts praising blizz for the gdkp ban and how it helped reduce RMT and bots while both have increased on the anniversary servers with gdkp’s banned.
What good are rules that are not enforced?
How? Having an active pug scene is ruining pugging?
Would you ever go into a gdkp if you knew that if 1 person in your group contributed to the pot with RMT gold?
Most people that are pro gdkp just won’t care at all, now imagine if blizzard were serious about going after RMT, they would surely ban everyone that indirectly benefits from that.
In that scenario, no one would ever even consider doing a gdkp, no one in their right mind would risk getting banned by trusting a group of 20+ individuals to play the game without ever acquiring gold from shady sources.
In fact that’s what happened on Nostalrius and other serious vanilla private servers, they never explicitly said that GDKPs were banned, but they did a good enough job at scaring the living crap of their player base, by handing out harsh punishments for everyone directly or indirectly linked to RMT.
In an ideal world, where Blizzard puts a real effort going after RMT, gdkps wouldn’t exist, everyone would just be too afraid to participate in it. But I’m also pragmatic, I know that’s never gonna happen.
The most realistic solution is to have 2 realms, 1 with gdkp enabled, and even possibly WoW token as well, and a second realm with no gdkp, no boosting and nothing that could incite a p2w behaviour. If you shove all the RMT positive folks into a server, you’ll have a second server with less people willing to spend real money into the game and a lower demand of gold buyers, less bots, a more healthy economy for players who enjoy playing the game the way it was played back in the day.
But I also see this whole discourse as a symptom of a more structural problem, megaserver economies are in shambles, the developers have to step in somehow, enabling gdkps solves the short time problem of not being able to afford goods, but it just forces everyone to adhere to this loot system, which will inevitably alienate a good chunk of the playerbase that doesn’t enjoy the p2w nature of it.
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Would you buy anything off the AH if you knew it was farmed by a bot? Or that the gold was going to a gold seller? Imagine if Blizzard took their jobs seriously and they weren’t polluting the game for months before a ban wave.
Would you raid with your guildies if you knew they were swiping?
Gold buying is this bad because the bots go unpunished for way too long. 1k gold for 10 dollars, how do you think they collect enough gold to sell it that cheaply? My best farm in 2019 (which to my knowledge is worthless on Anniversary) peaked between 100-150g an hour. I’d be picking mushrooms in Mara for 10 hours. I make ~20 an hour at my job. Maybe if picking mushrooms was still fun at hour 3 but it’s not. I’ve never bought gold. Not even a wow token (which only further normalized gold buying if you ask me). But do you see how unhinged this is?
Like, when an hour of my best farm (devalued on anniversary as well) gets enough mongoose pots for 1 reset and nothing else, it’s no surprise when people don’t want to do that and just swipe.
pure laziness