BAN update (overturned)

[Jabberie]

Huge amount of Reddit threads lately of people getting banned and then unbanned recently. I think this was exactly what he was banned for. The system seems triggerhappy as fuck as of late.

Then how come there are 100s of regular multiboxers that never have anything happen to them?

What is the difference between me and them?

Could it be that I don't so shady shit?

[jak3676]

Then how come there are 100s of regular multiboxers that never have anything happen to them?

What is the difference between me and them?

Could it be that I don't so shady shit?

Some of this it likely just server and GM specific. There's a number of streamers (StaySafe) who have been calling on multiboxing to be banned. I'd imagine that caused a bunch of people to be reported - and that shouldn't be an issue as there's nothing against TOS with multiboxing. But I'd also assume that there's some >0% of the time (any time there's human/GM intervention required) that a GM is going to get it wrong. So for all the MBers on PvP servers and anywhere MBers are making enemies; I'm sure the number of reports are going up. Even if the false positive rate of GM bans is staying the same it will mean that the number of false positive bans will go up.

The other issue at the moment is that a lot of servers are having a huge problem with bots. I don't want to imply that many multiboxers are botting, but I think there are a huge number of botters who are multiboxing. Maybe the botters aren't multiboxing in the traditional sense like we are, but when they have multiple bot programs all running the exact same routes it can be really hard to actually tell if they're following each other or just have the same programming. For the average player, I'd expect they don't even realize there's a difference and they report them all the same way. If I were a GM, and the last dozen tickets I worked were all bots, I'd really have to be on my A-game to make sure I didn't accidentally get a legit multiboxer mixed up in there - especially because the bots are being programed to look & behave as legit as possible.

[Jabberie]

• GMs are not specific to a server.
• Influencers have no influence on GMs/Blizzard - more reports just means more reports not more account actions.
• I don't want to keep repeating myself about reports from other players but GMs don't ban, they suspend.
• False positives happen. False GM positives are rare but happen. If you get a false GM positive, you're already way into the grey area so stop it.

If you're using bots, it doesn't matter if you're multiboxing or not, it will eventually get caught. For those using autofire macros/scripts/software, that falls under the "botting" umbrella as well.

Some of this it likely just server and GM specific. There's a number of streamers (StaySafe) who have been calling on multiboxing to be banned. I'd imagine that caused a bunch of people to be reported - and that shouldn't be an issue as there's nothing against TOS with multiboxing. But I'd also assume that there's some >0% of the time (any time there's human/GM intervention required) that a GM is going to get it wrong. So for all the MBers on PvP servers and anywhere MBers are making enemies I'm sure the number of reports are going up. Even is the false positive rate of GM bans is staying the same it will mean that the number of false positive bans will go up.

The other issue at the moment is that a lot of servers are having a huge problem with bots. I don't want to imply that many multiboxers are botting, I think there is a huge number of botters who are multiboxing. Maybe the botters aren't multiboxing in the traditional sense like we are, but when they have multiple bot programs all running the exact same routes it can be really hard to actually tell if they're following each other or just have the same programming. For the average player, I'd expect they don't even realize there's a difference and they report them all the same way.