At the very least, the ones I see are on for literally days at a time. It can’t be that hard to deduce that someone is botting.
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for every 10 bots you report 8 get banned 25 get re -created it is what it is
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They wait until the bot has generated income for the botters, pretend its about not exposing their bot detection methods, Blizzard makes 10000x 15 in subs from bots, botters make enough continue their efforts, blizzard bans the bots to publicly pretend that they are doing something.
I wouldn’t be surprised if blizzard or some employees owned some of the gold selling websites.
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senior staff has decided the programming team has other more important priorities
You don’t need to be a programmer to fish out bots. Just ‘/who Hunter 60’ and see all of the ones in Scarlet Monastery, Felwood, Tanaris, Winterspring and Burning Steppes. If simply observed for long enough, you can see the tell-tale signs of them being a bot. Anyone with admin privileges could turn themselves invisible and teleport to any player in the game. The would clearly see the botting happening. Or even give them a simple challenge that a human can pass that a program can’t.
Especially the ones with randomly generated names and chinese-lettering pet names. And I don’t mean character-creator randomized names, I mean an actual incoherent string of letters. 9 times out of 10 there’s not a person playing behind the screen.
Given what Blizzard is capable of, lack of results, and the incentive; this is the most likely answer.
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9 days later, all of the same bots…still in the same place… it’s honestly hopeless. They are never banned. I’m just annoyed by the ones farming herbs, that’s not even to mention to several that are grinding levels beside them. I mean one human GM could deal with this in about 30 seconds…
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money kills all good things / when system become bigger then the people they serve
every problem on this fourm board is a problem easily fix with some investment from the company side
obviously blizzard has wade the desicion on these things
and it makes more financal sense to them to continue on the way they are.
it’s very hard to ban bots 
hard on blizzard’s pocketbook that is.
Not even, when there’s people who would be willing to do it for free.
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