So recently, Square Enix release a new update to their Terms of Use/Service where they are no longer allowing any kind of advertising to be done using their Party Finder ((Which is almost equivalent to WoW’s LFG Tool)) and chat. If found posting advertising of any kind, you may get reported and have actions taken against the account. This does include those who are boosting for in game for gold only.
Now this does not mean that boosting for in game service for gold only is not allowed. They still allow it, but the twist is that now it is a buyers market so if someone who wants to buy the dungeon, raid, and etc boost for gold only, they have to advertise they are looking for someone or a group to do the boost.
I think by doing this on WoW’s end would help with removing the extra amount of spamming for advertising in chat by the sellers as well as actions taken against those using the LFG tool to advertise for boosting service for in game gold only. This will make it so the person who wants to buy the boost has to seek out the seller instead.
Now this is not to get ride of boosting completely which I am sure that is what most would want, but if Blizzard is going to sit there and say that boosting for in game services for gold only is going to be ok, I think this may help immediate the spamming in General and Trade Chat of all the boost advertising to make room for those who are advertising for other stuff like crafting stuff and etc.
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People have asked for a dedicated boost selling channel and bans for lfg violators going back as far as early BFA if I recall.
I could speculate that it was suggested before but I couldn’t state that as fact. It’s not a new idea in the least but one that’s been ignored by Blizzard.
Who knows, maybe some metrics say further dividing folk into different silos would be a less social experience? 
again I’m speculating.
I am honestly for one that says that they should just ban any kind of boosting for gold or RMT completely as it seems to kill the reward of those who worked hard to obtain what they are attempting to sell off.
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It’s already against the rules to post in Lfg.
Pretty sure the new accounts are made faster than the reports are sent in currently. I think that’s why they keep making it harder or impossible for anyone not 60 to list groups now.
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It is already against the rules to do it, but my suggestion is to take it to a new level. Make it so it is not allowed to be posted in chat as well, but still allow it to be done, but instead of the selling posting the advertising, let the buyer post that they are looking for a group to run them through for gold. Turn it into a buyers market may make so the chat channels are not slammed with so many gold boosting.
If the sellers want to make the money, let them sit and wait for the buyer to show up asking for it and then the buyer can pick which one they feel they want to work with to do business.
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One of the two new “co leader” of Blizzard is selling boosts himself…
So the problem with the WoW token sadly won’t go away.
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You are correct, the problem is with WoW Tokens, but my suggestion is more to lower the amount of spamming we see in the chat channels of boosting.
wow already has that - they are banning people for advertising in lfg for a long time already. however, people are using hacked accounts and what so it is endless.
in a few days the game won’t even let you post groups with custom messages without an authenticator on the account.
people never used trade and general much for that anyway - it is mostly politics and other sort of spam
very few people sell anything that is HARD to get. I don’t even have to look at your armory to tell the type of player you are
It doesn’t matter what rules blizzard puts in place. They have to throw the resources into policing the game. Which they will not do.
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Last I heard, they did try at some point, but found that the time they put into it was not doing much and the people who were making bots and such were just coming back with new characters within a few days.
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That is fair honestly. I personally just sick of seeing all the NOVA and etc boosting spam posting. Yeah I could just put them on ignore, but they tend to make tons of characters and do it on multiple different once so eventually it just leads to the same problem.
I like the idea of making it a buyer market ,it is very good but i doubt blizz would do something like that and even if somehow they did boosters will still spam in trade if they get banned they can make lvl 1 toon 
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More than likely yes, but the way this will happen is make it so Blizzard says “no more advertising for boosting for gold” Making it so those people can be reported and of course there will be those who will continue to do, but those who are legit doing the boost may stop to wait and see if someone wants to buy it. Change it around so they can’t spam the chat and have to wait till someone asks for it.
it’s weird that the mythic guilds actually selling the carries don’t seem to feel that way, isn’t it?
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because the content isn’t extremely ‘hard’ for them - that is why
you already have a solution for boost advertising, you just have to use it.
but most of the people who complain about it would illogically rather not use it, and continue to complain because of some ridiculous refusal for using addons in a game that was designed for using addons.
I doubt that is the reason most of them complain - a lot of them just don’t like the sellers making so much gold from carries and/or the buyers being able to buy mounts and achievements they are either too poor to buy or had to work ‘too hard’ to get.
Because like you said the fix is simple if it was just the spam they are concerned with.
I agree. People should not walk around with accolades they did not actually earn. What’s the point? Who are they trying to impress?
If I went to some black market store and bought myself an academy award, do I get to call myself an “academy award winning… something?”
Could be possible that reducing the spam of boost advertising could lead into something more like less worry about the boosting community. They will still exist out there and they aren’t being told they can’t do the boost, but this change would be more a “You now just have to wait for someone who is interested in buying the boost”
In the end, the same outcome of the boost buyer and boost seller is still happening so they aren’t really missing much. This is more a change on how they have to go about doing it. Why sit there for hours and hours posting boosting ads in chat when the person who wants the boost can do the advertise that they are willing to buy it?
most people aren’t going to advertise for a boost in this game - they will go to outside sites and probably will result in more actual $$ being traded.