Quote Originally Posted by 'Anozireth',index.php?page=Thread&postID=42630#pos t42630
I tend to spam the hell out of my nuke button when I'm playing a single character, let alone when multiboxing and I know that they aren't quite perfectly in sync. Manually spamming the button certainly does not get around the GCD, but I'm sure I'm within 200ms of it at most. I would think it would be difficult differentiate this from a cleverly programmed automated system. I know there is a way for applications to differentiate between keystokes raised by hardware and by software, but of course all the key presses keyclone sends to the clones are raised by software and those are considered legit, so that's not really a safe way to tell a bot.

Perhaps going into too much detail on how they detect bots isn't a good idea anyway, since it may give those with nefarious motives information to use to go undetected.
I'm not sure how clever the automation tools are but I would assume that Warden has some basic pattern matching. If your WoW recieves a sequence of keypresses and the interval between keypresses is almost exactly the same to within a few milliseconds you can probably assume some kind of automation tool is at work.

One concern I have is the following which I first noticed when using AHK:

What happens when you hold down a key?

Now with AHK you can script it 2 ways. One way is to keep sending KeyDown, KeyUP messages, in other words, a keypress is spammed. The other way to script it in AHK is that a KeyDown message is sent and then it waits for the key to be released before a KeyUp message is sent.

I use the 1st way to handle my hotkeys and the 2nd to handle movement, I hold the key down for movement but never for my hotkeys.

Now the first way of spamming a key to a WoW session when the key is being held down can be seen as an exploit to get around the GCD. You will probably send 100s of keypresses to WoW in the 1.5s of the GCD.

I am not sure how KeyClone works but if you are able to configure it in such a way that if you hold a key down it spams the wow sessions with the keypress then I can see how Blizzard can classify it as GCD exploit.

OTOH: The GM may just have been clueless.