While walking around smiting bots might be cathartic, it won’t stop botting. Blizz has a system in place to fight the programs they use (and it works, if you’d forgotten the fate of HB.)
Report and move on.
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Luckily you don’t get to make that decision
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Except they don’t know that they are bots until they investigate.
I think you are confusing multiboxing which is legal gameplay with botting which is not.
Found your trouble.
It’s not automation. Go learn how it works, there’s no stretch of the imagination that makes the tools to multibox “automation”.
Those examples do not make it “obvious” and still need to be investigated.
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I suspect Gallows to be a bot, where can i report him to Blizzard? 
Also, should all the Mechagnomes be considered as bot and reported?
Source please.
You got me. I can’t produce all the popcorn I do without botting. 
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They also need someone to check false name and language reports. Too much automation means blizzard is bot using as well but for different purposes.
Of course, Blizzard can use bots for certain purposes, because bots do not know fatigue and they do not need to pay a salary. However, we are talking about insolent people who use bots, thereby interfering with the game of other people and devaluing their work.
Blizzard has said in posts before that those are the reasons why they don’t ban accounts accused of botting immediately.
They investigate so they can identify HOW they are doing it as well as IF they are doing it.
You can go look those posts up yourself.
On the like GCD 
Blizzard doesn’t only want to ban the bots, they want to break the program they’re using. That’s where the really money is to be made. Selling the botting program.
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Although Blizzard knows the program, what’s the point if many months and many updates later, bots keep running using the same program.
If Blizzard broke it, it’s not the same program. I’ll point to HonorBuddy during WoD. Was making a ton of money. Then Blizzard broke it. No more HonorBuddy.
Naturally Blizzard has to periodically write a public report, however, the result is the same, bots are always and everywhere. Surely Blizzard employees have a set of rules about what you can talk about and what you can’t, don’t expect one hundred percent truth.
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Same goes for any sort of hacking attempts and computer viruses.
Just because you stop people from doing it one way, doesn’t mean they are just going to give up.
One more hour on the CD
I understand, everywhere there are nuances, pros and cons. Nevertheless, a few months is too long, during which time the bots have time to work out the required amount of resources for further development.
And banning them immediately will create false positives which will create negative feedback from players unfairly affected and cause the bot makers to move faster, possibly stressing Blizzard’s ability to keep up with them.
If you think you see a bot, just report it and move on.
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They should do what RuneScape does and give respectful community members player mod status
Then give them a function to time out players that seem to be acting suss after like a 10 minute widow with a one of those code things pops up that you need to not be a robot to answer or something
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In this game, I wouldn’t trust that ability to players.
I’ve seen they way they talk and behave. This would get horribly abused.
But how long did it take to break this program? And were there any other similar cases?