I for one, Love the huge ban hammer going on right now.

[zenga]

From what I've read also players that did not use the archeology function of said bot go booted. It turns out that the bot was communicating through a chat channel rather than using injection other bots are using.

Update to my previous post: no cheap herbs/ore in my mailbox today, guess it was indeed a fishy gatherer.

[Kicksome]

They are also hitting AFK BG bots, thank god!!! Blue post below:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...15417?page=1#2

[Lax]

They are also hitting AFK BG bots, thank god!!! Blue post below:

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...15417?page=1#2

Finally!

I always hated seeing 5+ people just sitting at the damn zone and the "Report AFK" thing being completely useless.

[coglistings]

haha, can't say there is a change in market prices on KilJad horde side. proves the point you can't ban Chinese kids from playing wow and earning enough money to feed family whole week.

[Ualaa]

People are still AFK today, in BG's.
But hopefully it is fewer players than before.
And hopefully, they catch players quicker and are more harsh with those that cheat in this manner.

[Harrypott]

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/164057/afk-bots

From the link... reply from bliz
We’re in the process of stepping up our detection and tracking to log and action players that are botting, or habitually AFKing in the Battlegrounds. We’ll be taking aggressive action and removing earned items, Honor Points, and ultimately suspending or even banning accounts of those that are found to be botting or habitually AFKing. It’s a sophisticated level of monitoring we’re undertaking. No one actively playing in the Battlegrounds normally should be concerned that they’ll be actioned.

[Shania]

I remember that post on wow forums when it happened.... but the next day some of the same farming bots in Uldum still exist and they are even still there now.... no matter how many times they have been reported.

. We’ll be taking aggressive action and removing earned items, Honor Points, and ultimately suspending or even banning accounts of those that are found to be botting or habitually AFKing.

If they are botting, exploiting should be a ban, none of this removing items and a suspension with a slap of the wrist.

[Ualaa]

They want to ban the sellers.
But retain the buyers.

If they really want to curb the gold sales, bots etc.
They should go really hard for both ends of the deals.

Doubt that will happen.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Maybe if they gave points in BG's based upon healing and damage and objectives and zero points if you did zero things then people would not AFK in BG's.

[Ualaa]

I'd really be in favor of that.

PvP activities rewarding honor.
Even if it is killing enemy players, which isn't always beneficial as far as objectives go... it still ties them up from objectives themselves.