But I am not denying its existence nor am I using reverse psychology. A person who commits an act that is detrimental in nature would not accept committing it and would defend it as they don’t want it to end.
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You understand that people having been paying other people gold to run them through dungeons since Vanilla right?
The problem isn’t that people are selling boosts, the problem is that you can buy gold with tokens so Blizzard basically created a pay to win system lol.
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“My friend… please come this way, my friend! I have an associate who’s boosting is much more better, my friend!”
Is how it feels in trade.
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That’s an assumption. Also, selling runs isn’t inherently “detrimental” because no harm has been done to you. 
To put it in simple words in what I said . Why would a booster admit they are doing boosting ads and why would they want Blizzard to stop it if it beneficial for them ?? Obviously they will defend it .
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The current game is literally designed around it.
Hence, the “buy a carry or miss out” mount at the end of every expansion since MoP.
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They might, but again, that’s an assumption.
It’s been around since the game was a thing. Titles, mounts, transmogs. That part isn’t new, the issue that people should have is with tokens, not that people are using gold to purchase things that they want… that’s what gold is for.
does it matter how many it is?
it shows that LOTS of players willingly engage in exploitation of the economy.
it takes gold away from the guilds who want to be able to sell runs.
it makes the group finder a pain to use.
…and i’m feeling too icky to argue at my usual level, so i can’t think of all the other reasons why this is so bad for the game 
(and what is going on with this derpy forum software? it just told me i should send you a private message if i wanted to continue this chat out of public view?) 
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only… these companies take real world money, not gold.
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I understand this has been going on since vanilla yes. It’s far more prominent and in your face now. I know more people IRL that buy boosts than don’t.
When the conversation of new content with my friends is how much its going to cost to get carried through it, it is a sad state of affairs.
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I believe that’s already against the ToS. Tokens do help mediate those issues, but they do cause issues themselves.
You mean there is chance a booster won’t defend boosting and want Blizzard to remove it ? 
Well consider this if they can’t make gold via the Ah and are dependant on boosting sales or they are doing RMT boosting for their daily living. Blizzard removing it is serious threat to them isn’t it ?.
So I find it highly unlikely that a booster won’t defend boosting .
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Yet they automate customer support. Let’s frustrate the player experience to entince boosting and token sales
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Paying gold for runs has never been against the rules, so they won’t ban it. Advertising the runs, however, in any public channel or the LFG tool, is against the rules, so keep reporting them every time you see them.
Doesn’t matter if you think you’ve already reported them, if you log on and see more runs, report them again. Report, report, report.
The more people report the faster Blizzard cleans up the mess. And if you don’t think they won’t, ask yourself when was the last time you saw a gambling lottery being advertised in any public channel?
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Forget boosting. What about botting?
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Automation hasn’t been prohibited at all. And carries will always be part of the game because they can’t stop friends from helping friends gear up.
…so is advertising in the group finder.
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Well, that’s a separate issue.
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it’s directly related to boosting… so it’s part of the same issue
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That ship sailed when they raised the prospect of tokens during WoD. Some of us, me included, said very vocally that it could only lead to Blizzard equating in-game activity with real-world cash - and we were right. Nerfed gold drops, stubborn pursuit of “pushing” content being key to progress, it’s all $$$$ for the back-end. Hey, you can buy it ALL with gold, right?
The integrity of the game died when the Token was introduced. And I say that as someone who took full advantage of Blizzard’s deliberately low gold price for tokens for the first year or so.
Absolutely, and my Brutosaur agrees 
However now that pvp rankings and keystone achievements are required for progress in the game for those who still care, it’s opened up a lucrative gold market for a much wider part of the game than used to be the case, and that’s looking to be very much by design rather than, as it was previously, via player initiative.
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