Offense: Use of Bots or Third-Party Automation Software

Except the only thing accomplished with mass reporting is that the person reported may be temporarily squelched. Those reports have no impact on the penalties that are discussed here. The investigations that happen regarding “use of bots of third-party software” may be started as the result of player reports, but the majority of them are not (nor would they result in a penalty regardless of how many reports they may have received). The investigations done are part of the normal tasks that our Hacks teams have to help address exploitation.

Except Game Masters don’t “okay” actioning for that kind of report, and you may be misunderstanding the difference between being squelched, which is simply a temporary silence, and any other action that is being discussed.

A Game Master will review right-click reports for chat violations and they may for naming violations. They do not generally do so for botting investigations, as we have special procedures involved there.

As we do not allow discussion of account actions on the forums and the advice for how to appeal has already been provided I think it is a good time to lock this one up.

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