DKP = Dragon Kill Points, a very old loot system that has it’s roots in pre-WoW MMOs, it was designed so people who showed up to events/raids/whatever more often got more points and could spend said point on the loot.
G = Gold
GDKP = Same concept but with gold instead of participation points. The incentive for joining if you aren’t after gear is the gold pool is plit at the end so you will get a cut.
GDKP is honestly not a bad system on it’s own, the main problem is it’s used for laundering bought gold and also monopolizes everything.
EDIT: I just noticed this is necroed.
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It happens to the best of us.
We must remain strong and defeat the evil.
That was a great, concise explanation though.
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That’s actually pretty dumb. You’re just creating more garbage reports for them to have to sift through. You’re actively giving bots more time by wasting theirs.
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My mailbox says different. They got systems we dont even know about working on this stuff. Unless we got a blizz employee to state how they handle tickets or where they go or how they get organized then anything you say to me about how many people I report or who I report for whatever reason is invalid.
Whether you’re clogging up a system run by people or robots you’re still clogging it up. You also may be creating an opportunity for someone to be wrongfully suspended/banned. Participating in a GDKP is fine whether you like it or not.
Sure so long as you dont buy gold. Which is what the reports and checks are for.
Also again, you don’t know whether or not I’m clogging any system up.
By reporting players who aren’t committing any sort of violation you’re at best accomplishing nothing. At worst your are both slowing down Blizzard’s process and getting players falsely banned.
You should at least observe some sort of suspicious behavior before reporting someone. GDKP participation is not suspicious behavior.
Well, it is on blizzard to design their report system so that players do not negatively impact it when they go on report campaigns.
Personally, I’d design the system to auto-ban people who falsely report 100+ times or something like that 
probably send them a warning first.
“this account was found to have issued multiple false reports, continuation of this behavior will result in account closure”
ez pz
That sounds like a good idea theoretically. But then you’re also creating another opportunity for people to be falsely banned. How would you know these players are intentionally abusing the reporting feature? I’m sure you could tell in some cases but in other cases it could be much more difficult.
Maybe it could work. Maybe not 
My position on GDKP is that it makes sense “on paper” as a PUG loot system. If people didn’t buy gold and other shady stuff, and items went for prices that are more realistic to Vanilla then I doubt we would have much to say about it. You join a raid, bid on stuff with gold (that you earned) and the pot is split among attendees. Seems like a very straight forward way to do loot with people not part of a raiding roster/group.
The wrinkle is that there are always those people who will do the shady stuff, buying gold, drive up prices incentivizing people to buy even more gold so they can buy BiS items at eye watering inflated prices (above gold cap in some cases), and all the rest of the behavior that makes this loot system terrible for the game.
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to see that whenever Era is booming that the bots are out in incredible, massive numbers. Late last summer before the other game modes started to take off that was the main topic on this forum. The people running those gold farming bots aren’t doing this as a hobby, they are where the people are buying their services.