The thing is, there are dozens upon dozens of botters on my realm, and those are the ones that I know of. So how would you ever tell who reported you or even if it was a botter and not just some regular player or if you were even banned due to player reports? Bots are not exactly difficult to spot with our pinpoint accuracy in landing exactly on nodes and what not. I also dont want Blizz checking into any of my accounts because I, for some reason, know what a bot is and looks like. Most players are stupid and thats a fact. Say the word bot and they ask, "Which dungeon is that?" The funny thing is, now BOT is a dungeon.
As I said, I attempt to track where the other botters are (friends list) to help limit my exposure to other bots and to not draw attention from Blizz by being in the same area as a dozen other bots at the same time. I could care less if I am gathering Obsidium ore or elementium Ore, Twilight Jasmine or Cinderbloom, or even old world mats and Outlands stuff on occasion. It all sells quickly and for 100% pure profit regardless of the sale price. So far I have not lost a single toon to GB use, knock on wood, and hopefully never will. I could get home today to find them all banned, or I could bot for two more years unnoticed...it’s a coin toss.
However, the last thing I want to do is to help encite a ban war between botters. Someone ninja your node? Maybe their bot doesn’t have the option to not ninja nodes? The bot I first started with certainly didn’t. Not everyone kows the glory of HB and GB. In the end, who really cares, its one little node and you will get another one soon enough. I have several different guilds attached to my bots and there is not a single one of them that has not got the 100,000 herb and mine achievement ages ago. I have hundreds of thousands of gold squirreled away in various guild banks, my toons have all the neatest toys and mounts and they have gear that gives other toons wet dreams! I am not going to rock the boat because of a few lost little nodes. I shall continue on, hidden, unnoticed, moving through the shadows, taking the slower path if necessary but always moving forward and coming out ahead. Again, just my two cents...