Quote Originally Posted by 'vudu',index.php?page=Thread&postID=76873#post7687 3
If blizzard was completely okay with AFKing in the BGs/Arenas they never would have came up with the new report feature in BGs. To me that shows a clear stance on blizzards part...against AFKing. Will they perma ban your account for it? I doubt it - but it's more than definately against the rules.
As you can see from my original post, I am fully aware that non-participation in BG's is not allowed. This however does not automatically apply by extension to arena. You seem to have missed the point of my question, so I'll phrase it a little more clearly (even though I'm fairly sure I wont be bothering to try this, as I now see that the couple of gear slots which I might want to populate with pvp gear are only available from honor and marks).

rephrased original questionBlizzard have stated that non-participation in battlegrounds is not allowed. Does this also apply to arenas?

The reason I put in the subject heading "expert opinion needed" was that I was hoping for a response from someone with enough knowledge of the rules to have a clear answer to this. I dont mean to be condescending but all of these "damages the community" or "how could you live with yourself" type of responses do not answer the question, and to be perfectly frank mean little or nothing to me.