I… don’t get this comparison unless you’re saying neither bothers anyone.
But Boxers are amazing doggos. If people want more than one and can care for the them, then they should have them.
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Not sure I follow your logic, unless you’re saying we should apply the same principles to both.
Which is a bit of a misidentification of the differences between the two. One is a conversation where someone jumps to a different character to add an extra voice in their favor. The other is simply paying for another account in a game and using it.
What about warmode though? You could argue it doesn’t matter since people zerg around anyway, but still those groups need living people that aren’t connected to a hive mind like multiboxers.
Wait, what does this have to do with sock-puppeting on the forums? Are you switching gears now?
OK, that would mean banning everyone who plays the game with a keyboard. Or any sort of input device really.
No, it would be the same as sock-puppeting. Just like how the groups of living people in warmode would be multiple different people that have the same opinion on the forums.
You are a mean person and do not deserve cookies.
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This is not a thing. There is automatic (botting) and not automatic (perfectly within the terms of use).
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You’re trying to connect two completely different things by a rather questionable thread. Multiboxing is not a problem. Using secondary characters to troll on the forums is.
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I’m sorry I don’t understand what you’re trying to say and I’m serious. I don’t see the connection between multiboxers, WM and forum sock-puppets 
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If it’s allowed, why is that a problem?
The crux of the issue is Blizzards pants-on-head decision to make Zin’athid pop in only one zone, and be required in such high numbers for recipes.
Anchor weed, as annoying as it is, can at least spawn in any zone.
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Source? Because it obviously IS automation. One person cannot reliably control 15 accounts simultaneously the way these multibox bots move, all at once. Simply not enough hands. It is impossible without a program to distribute key actions which IS automation. If Blizzard said otherwise I want to know who, when, and in what context. Because that is very clearly BS.
Thanks, I read the whole post champ. No evidence was posted of this not being any other form of botting. Just a lot of "b-but they said!’ parroting with no link or evidence whatsoever. But since you can’t be bothered to do your own homework or back up your own claims, let me go ahead just this once and move the keys for you (it’s not automation though):
https://www.blizzard.com/en-us/legal/fba4d00f-c7e4-4883-b8b9-1b4500a402ea/blizzard-end-user-license-agreement
cheats; i.e. methods not expressly authorized by Blizzard, influencing and/or facilitating the gameplay, including exploits of any in-game bugs, and thereby granting you and/or any other user an advantage over other players not using such methods;
bots; i.e. any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Blizzard, that allows the automated control of a Game, or any other feature of the Platform, e.g. the automated control of a character in a Game;
Again, it is impossible for one person to control 5-15 accounts simultaneously and synchronize their moves as these multiboxer bots do. The fact you want to defend them is irrelevant. The fact Blizzard wants to ignore them for profit is irrelevant. Ignoring a problem does not make it any less of a problem.
Also this CLEARLY gives multiboxers an advantage over other normal players, in terms of gameplay and more specifically the ECONOMY. Fact.
Not enforcing an existing TOS does not remove it from the TOS.
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I agree. I have only witnessed multiboxers twice on 15 years. I’m not talking about someone running two account, I’m talking about 4-10 accounts at once. I’ve only witnessed it twice.
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Because permissions are not an all or nothing thing. Notice how I specified where alt forum posts are a problem.
Blizzard allows character switching in good faith that you won’t abuse the feature. If you do abuse the feature, you can get in trouble.
Anyone can get the software to multibox and purchase several accounts so there’s no unfair advantage.
All tickets and reports are shared on the same battlenet so it is impossible to do what you just said right there. You get ONE ticket TOTAL active a t time across all battle net accounts registered under your name I would know becuase I submitted an issue on an entirely different battle net account and was unable to submit one from this one. I also was answers while question on this account.
You can also only file ONE report at a time across all your accounts.
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Oh okay. That would be the difference then.