Is it time to revisit the "we don't discuss punishments"

[Rufflebottom-bloodhoof (Rufflebottom)]

@Eretloc-area-52

actual —> feedback <— from reports will spur people to actually report.

The biggest thing that got players reporting is the streamer who “tested” the reporting system and his viewers saw that it did something.

@Eretloc-area-52

yet in the case of bots you still see them doing thier thing.

Because knocking bots out one by one actually makes the problem worse not better.

Someone in a previous thread explained it well.

Dozens of skinning bots printing gold in foxhollow woods

Or, look at it this way. In one scenario, you have Blizzard identifying and playing whack-a-mole with individual botting reports. You’re a goldselling company. You have ten thousand bots running around in-game. You have three accounts in a day that are identified as bots. They get banned. No worries to you. You didn’t buy those accounts, you stole them. And there’s no outlay of cash to replace them, you deploy a new wave of phishing emails to harvested gaming email addresses and your former c…