You obviously dont have a clue what a banwave is then.
^This^ is exactly right.
Immediate problems--such as filthy language in the trade channel, or obviously selling too much gold--get immediate ban/suspension remedies.
Infractions that require investigation are usually 'batched'. Blizzard metes out the penalty for investigative infractions every six-to-eight weeks. They know this has a significant psychological impact to those in the botting and gold-selling communities, and its a large reason as to why they 'batch' the penalties.
If you were part of one of these batch bannings, the behavior that got you caught did not occur in the past few days, but a number of weeks ago. It could be due to a lot of things:
- Grinding too long in a 'watched area' (e.g., Rainspeaker Rapids, and the end of Zul'drak was a popular botting area, and now the Uldum Volatile Air farming area)
- Too many player reports (perhaps you AFK'd the bot, or let it run too long)
- Too much PvPing with the bot (PvPers take their game a little too seriously, and report anything they don't like in a heartbeat)
- Running badly written profiles (e.g., one that spams RunMacro way too much)
- Attacking evading mobs, or stuck on scenery decoration all night
- etc.
In short, the problem is your toon got identified a number of weeks ago due to some risky behavior it did. It wasn't the recent actions that got you tagged.
Sorry for your loss, but this is simply not a banwave. If you want to see banwave take a look at our sister bot.
From what I've been reading in the forum posts, the advice to appeal the ban seems to work well of late. A significant number of users are getting there bans reversed (even permabans). I can think of several reasons (not for discussion in this thread), why Blizzard would become more lenient with ban-reversals. Anyway, appealing is worth a shot.
And one last thing, a 3-hour...72-hour... whatever is a
suspension.
Bans are permanent.
cheers,
chinajade
