Quote Originally Posted by Lax View Post
I can't say for certain, but it's been a month since this thread was bumped prior to your post, my guess is that if people were still getting banned they would still be complaining.

I don't think it's possible that multiboxers stopped doing battlegrounds entirely, there's new multiboxers every day and certainly not everyone has even heard of a possibility of getting banned from battlegrounds...

My guess is either that they changed some parameters on their end in a server update and that it's harder to get automatically banned by this system, or that they turned the automatic bans back off for now.
Over the past week or so a ton of players have reported getting banned for botting in BG's (even on that particular bot it's forum). Most seem to be banned after using one of the so called public profiles. A profile is a certain route that a bot takes to run around in a BG. Hence why you could see certain bot trains in random bg's, people using the same profile. Apparently one can make their own profile, and it doesn't look like those 'players' got banned who kept their profile private. So it was not really the bot that got detected, but rather the bot behaviour that triggered the banwave.

By the looks of it blizzard implemented a detection tool that tracks routes that characters take in random battlegrounds, and compare those routes to other players. What happened with all the boxers getting banned, and the fact that some main toons/leaders did not get the ban, is imo that they did not have enough data yet to compare. The system detected multiple toons taking the same route while it was in fact a multiboxer, and given their sample size not being big enough, the system flagged them as botters. Now that their is plenty of data available, it looks like the false positive detections for boxers disappeared.