Feeling uncertain

[kate]

Good lord find something real to freak out about rather than imagining you’re being oppressed and in danger of mob action for being a multiboxer.

It’s multiboxing of a video game. It’s supposed to be fun (and occasionally frustrating). Chill the hell out, walk away from the computer for a bit, and quit borrowing trouble.

[Jabberie]

Reports by players can get you looked at, they do not get your suspended automatically. If you get looked at and you're doing bad shit, you risk getting fucked by a gm.
Your own actions get you auto-suspended - hopefully as a false positive. Who here things it's normal to farm 10 mobs for 12+ hrs straight?

I play 4 to 9 hours a night, 3 to 7 nights a week. I've done this for the past 12 yrs.

I do not believe anyone that comes on a forum to champion their innocence since a forum has not effect at all to the outcome.
It is also a completely one side conversation with no proof. I'm not calling them a liar, I simple refuse to believe them.

Way too many people come on here and discord and say they did nothing later to be caught out on their story.
There has even been a few "higher" (in the sense of the MB community) profile streamers that got suspended while they were off stream and again, caught out in their stories. "i was only using a keyboard macro to keep me moving while i got something to eat". ... ... .. for what, you were getting food for 10 hrs?

There are 2 things that happen. You either are botting or you're doing something that is so akin to it, that you get profiled as one.

[jak3676]

All my evidence is anecdotal, but it seems to be right now (at least in classic) that if enough people report you, you get a temp ban - at least until a GM looks at it and realizes there's nothing there, then it gets reversed. It's become almost its own meme in PvP (or PvE world boss fights) on my own server to just get 100's of people to report someone.

The standard practice is also to /who every high level dungeon and to report every player without a guild for botting - especially groups of druids/warriors + 3 Mages + priest.

It seems as though Blizz's response to the botting is so bad, that many players feel they need to help. I'm not saying they're being effective at all, or that being guildless is any indication of botting, just that's what's going on. I completely agree that none of this actually helpful - likely just generating lots of false positives for Blizz to sort through.

Personally, I've never had any sort of ban, and I've never even been "bot checked" by a GM to the best of my knowledge. But I share the original poster's sense of uncertainty. There's just a lot of anti-multiboxer sentiment right now, much of it confused with anti-botting sentiment. I actually moved all my chars into one of the bigger name guilds just to avoid some harassment.