Information on banning procedure

[RD808]

So, as you saw in my other thread, I was banned then my account was fully restored upon opening a ticket immediatly. I put some rough examples about how I think Blizzard uses an automated filtering process for their bans and I put what I think those filters are in an example. Such as being logged on for 8 hours straight or more.

Finally, when I asked how I can avoid being banned in the future, they confirmed that it was an automated system and that my account fell withing the suspicious activity guidelines. Upon reviewing the account, they found them to be 'false positives'.

I think this pretty much confirms they have a flagging process with a number of specific filters. If you fit withing more than a few of these filters, you are banned and have to request a review. Some of these filters are probably as such

Logged on for 8+ hours
Did not stop movements for 8+ hours
Was in Uldum for those 8 hours
Was farming for those 8 hours
Consistently mailed alt materials for those 8 hours.

I say 8 hours because every ban I looked at was around 8 hours of play. I think it would be safe to stay around 4-6 hours then take a break or continue the next day. Also, I think they do ban waves by zone considering everyone banned on 3/22 was in Uldum.

I could be wrong, but this is why I have deduced from the research I did. Hope this helps.

 

[Macatho]

Yes thats how it works. The only thing is that we dont know what those filters are. The filters have been ingame for over a year but back then it only picked up if you did like 60 yard loops around a grind spot and grinded a ton of stuff for 4 hours.
Now the filter is much more advanced and picks up even multi path profiles.

 

[Technik]

Definately good information.
The biggest one is of course : Player Reports.
Busy servers always increase the risk of ban by 125% unfortunately.

 

[Ronnie]

There is a guy who bots pets on a german realm for straight 32 hours non-stop atm. I never report fellow botters, i just watch and im confused how they didn't auto ban him already.
P.S. High populated server btw

 

[Saburo]

There is a guy who bots pets on a german realm for straight 32 hours non-stop atm. I never report fellow botters, i just watch and im confused how they didn't auto ban him already.
P.S. High populated server btw

Probably because not a lot of AH/mail activity.
4 Botters here in Uldum on my realm, people were spamming in general chat in uldum "report x/y/z/c botters!!!" etc, but they're still there now 3 days later farming non-stop.

 

[mefisto]

well dont think ah/mail activity is needed, i got 72h suspension on trial account where I farmed light leather for like 2h total with breaks in between to skill up lw lol
few days before that I was running other char to get herb/mining up to 100, was watching it 90% of time
unlucky those couple mins I wasnt at the comp I got followed by nasty 85 and probably reported ;P

 

[eagles2010]

Its a good post and something to be mindful of. Some other points to be made should be;

If you do get banned, don't automatically assume that it is what you have done recently. Whether there are filters, or that your account may have been flagged, could have simply led to your account being physically reviewed. This could mean days, or longer, before they take action on a given account(s).

Think about how you are botting and look at the other side of the coin. Is it realistic to think that a person will farm ore in uldum non-stop for 6, 7, or longer without stopping day after day?

There are players who are, basically, on a crusade to spot and report botters. Some may be botters themselves, but regardless they are there reporting any person who they feel are not playing legitamately.

 

[RD808]

Its a good post and something to be mindful of. Some other points to be made should be;

If you do get banned, don't automatically assume that it is what you have done recently. Whether there are filters, or that your account may have been flagged, could have simply led to your account being physically reviewed. This could mean days, or longer, before they take action on a given account(s).

Think about how you are botting and look at the other side of the coin. Is it realistic to think that a person will farm ore in uldum non-stop for 6, 7, or longer without stopping day after day?

There are players who are, basically, on a crusade to spot and report botters. Some may be botters themselves, but regardless they are there reporting any person who they feel are not playing legitamately.

Really good points. Yes, you might create a ticket, slip and mention something you did recently as an assumption. It is best to just keep you tickets with the least insinuations as possible.

When I created my ticket and got my account back, I acted like a complete newb. I think that is the best bet. I mentioned I got hacked and then put an authenticator on my account recently and I hope that what happened had nothing to with that (because I had to pretend my account got hacked for bad payments on a sold account). Even though I knew the recent ban had nothing to do with it, I still acted really worried and clueless.