Recent Wave of Account Actions

[MadMilitia]

Are we 100% sure its connected to the /report tool?

I believe so. The blues have been silent on it. There is really no other way they could have done this. Too much sophistication going other routes. I'm a software developer and in this regard I've thought it over and yeah.. they are using the playerbase and the /report tool to do this. That's why multiboxers are getting hit.

https://us.battle.net/support/en/art...sting-websites


They added an option to reporting players for cheating some time ago. And they bumped the usefulness of the /report tool in battlegrounds as well. The latter being very recently.

I saw a blue post on the issue a few weeks ago but the board is updated all day so the post is buried. For name reporting they are ditching it /dev/null. Everything else goes through some new filter auto monitoring tool they've developed. That tool is banning multiboxers. Its probably some basic arithmetic on average proximity to other players and sequence input. I don't think it works on having AFK status either.

[JohnGabriel]

Of the people that were banned, did any of you have mixed teams with uniquely different names?

I imagine if you all go in with xmog twins all named the same except é or whatever, then people are going to quickly report you.

But if you're getting banned for the less obvious boxing then maybe its not the /report tool, or maybe its only partially that. And I cant imagine more than a few people in a 40 man that reports you so it would be a very sensitive tool if that is the case.

[MadMilitia]

Of the people that were banned, did any of you have mixed teams with uniquely different names?

I imagine if you all go in with xmog twins all named the same except é or whatever, then people are going to quickly report you.

But if you're getting banned for the less obvious boxing then maybe its not the /report tool, or maybe its only partially that. And I cant imagine more than a few people in a 40 man that reports you so it would be a very sensitive tool if that is the case.

I'd be interested in knowing this as well. Also the odds of a player who runs an entire BG on their side being banned. If we knew for sure they weren't being banned then we know it is directly involving the /report tool for the knobs in game to abuse.