Quote Originally Posted by zenga View Post
Trying to prove your point by stating that the most sophisticated bot does not use /follow is plain dumb.

We disabled /follow from use in battlegrounds to curb some of the most basic types of bots that use the command.


There were enough bots around in bg's who would just /follow people. Rather than spending man hours on those reports, they can easily kill those 'basic' bots by disabling follow. The fact that they consider re-enabling it in arena is a concession towards multiboxers. They have always said that they tolerate multiboxing, but are not supporting it. which basically meant until they change something that makes it no longer possible (like disabling follow in bgs).

The vast amount of conspiracy theories and fallacies is amazing in this thread. I was under the impression that the multiboxing community here was a bit more mature and intelligent.
They killed a lot more bots than I thought they would, looking at all the people stuck at the entrance over AV weekend. Those were also the harder to detect bots (via client/server side methods); paradoxically the easiest ones to completely disable immediately.

I did a little research and it did some damage to the more sophisticated bots, and minor damage to the most sophisticated bots, but they worked around it quickly. Apparently they used /follow in some situations when necessary to, I guess, normalize things where the pathing got off.

It only made a small difference though. They knew from the start it only helped botting and RAF/LFR/etc. followers but the collateral damage to multiboxing? Acceptable risk.

I'm trying not to go to either extreme here, which is pretty common on all the posts - e.g. this was only to kill mutliboxers and did nothing to bots, or that this was really for bots and multiboxing was only a side effect. They killed some bots and annoying leachers. They crippled multiboxing in BGs too. They did both.