No keypresses...well, if I finish that, nearly every addon there is would be illegal.
Not true -- take Decursive for example. It started out as a "spam this button and I'll target the decurse targets for you" to the current grid of funny looking boxes that you MUST manually click.

The only addons I use are merely organizers of information. For example, SCT which organizes important combat text information into an overlay over my character's head. TourGuide, which tells me where to pickup/turning quests but requires that I actually perform those actions myself. DamageMeters, which sorts through combat text to find and reorganize damage information. None of these perform any actions.

Which is why, I reiterate, the key here is whether /follow, a non-GCD inducing macro action, is still an action. According to the precedent set by Decursive/Healbot et al, there are abilities which are non-GCD inducing which are still considered actions (and are, rightly, protected within the API) -- that's targeting. So then there's the twist -- IF /follow is considered an "action" in the same way, then it COULD (but is not certain to be) bannable and might (and probably should) be removed from access within the API. If not, then it is not considered an action capable of automating, and should be fine to use. In fact, I can't think of a single addon that doesn't fall into the category of "information sorters" except for.. you guessed it... jamba. Bar mods organize your buttons into layouts, but still require clicks. Bag mods sort your bags, auction mods sort the auction prices, boss mods organize combat text/timers but take no actions themselves. They all require clicks to do actions -- the question remains: is /follow considered an action?

No matter what is said by us here, NONE of us -- not me, not any of the mods or users -- can guarantee that the addon, with 100% certainty, is not considered automation. Whether a user wants to use it is up to them, and whether a user wants to verify with a GM before they use is also up to them (and I don't want to see anyone discourage a user from being able to exercise their right to ask questions, particularly to a GM/Blizzard representative).


I know I seem like a dinosaur hardware boxer who is completely opposed to change, but keep in mind it's only been about a year since we've had any sort of confirmation on out-of-game software being kosher, and through persistence we got that confirmation. If we don't ask questions and keep making assumptions, it's only a matter of time before someone oversteps the line and gets banned based on improper advice. I feel like a broken record -- but I never claimed Jamba was bannable, or that Jamba strobing was wrong -- merely that, while it couldn't be said it's not wrong -- it similarly cannot be said that it's not right. I want to make that very clear -- the OP has the right to ask questions, same as anyone, and has the right to clear and complete information and, if opinion is given, clarity that it IS just opinion.

I really appreciate all you do for the community Vyndree but in this case you are speaking as an authority (or at least a percieved authority) on a topic you clearly do not understand well. Your responses are simply FUD about a perfectly legal function that exists in many different UI mods around the game.
I am merely listing facts. I repeat again: I never said Jamba was bannable, nor that Jamba strobing was even WRONG.

If you'd like to refute the facts, feel free. If you want to criticize my character, now that's a different story. I am not trying to wave "the sky is falling" flag -- in fact, I'm making it very carefully clear that is exactly what I am NOT doing. I am merely saying that any confirmation of Jamba's legality is OPINION based on the notion that ALL addons are acceptable merely because the API says so. I never said that any non-acceptable addon WILL result in a ban, simply that it MAY. And, once again, I never said Jamba was one of those non-acceptable addons.

I'm the little text at the end of your vitamin bottle that says "not approved by the FDA to treat or prevent any disease". That's ALL.