Quote Originally Posted by Chumbucket View Post
Haven't seen it mentioned and i doubt all of us who have been tapped by the ban hammer have done this but could the suspensions be related to the 2 step?
Considering the bans are not specifically ISBoxer users ("I only used Keyclone and Jamba!"), I would say it has nothing to do with the 2 step. Also, probably fewer people use "the 2 step" method than you realize


People are getting reported AFK or whatever in the battlegrounds, some many times, and this is pretty obviously related to the suspensions/bans. (Not to mention the number of people who have been specifically told by Blizzard that this is related.) Since this is obviously a new thing with people actually getting suspended/banned automatically (I imagine this whole problem is caused by switching AFK reports to automatic review instead of manual review), Blizzard is probably still working on the algorithms that try to decide who is a botter, who is afk, and who is legit. There's supposedly some threshold where you need to attack something in x amount of time, or at least that was the rumor from before this debacle. It's also possible that permanently being on auto-follow might flag you, and so on.

I imagine that AFK reports might be permanent on your accounts, so people who have been doing BGs for a while might be more at risk than someone just starting. I also imagine that when the GMs review your account after you complain about your account getting banned for multiboxing, they might clear out existing AFK reports from your account. But anyone playing in the BGs can still use the AFK report tool if they don't like you, I don't think I see them making it impossible to do that to someone just because it's a multiboxer.

Part of the problem with multiboxers in BGs is, first of all, that some people are bad multiboxers. Say you run 5 and one's a healer, if you decide not to use him to heal then your healer might get reported as AFK... Say your configuration is busted and only one of your guys (e.g. the "main" one) is actually attacking, then 4 of your guys might get reported as AFK. Say one of your guys dies and ends up in a graveyard at the other side of the map, if you don't run him back toward your team, he might get reported as AFK. These are all equivalent to someone playing a character in the BG, and not doing anything, and your teammates may or may not like you...


With that said, I don't specifically know and if I did specifically know they would probably not let me spill any details. These are educated guesses. As always, be a Good Citizen (tm) and they have no reason to want to ban you.