usrmd
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- Jul 7, 2012
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More details in our botting/manual habits are necessary in order to provide the other botters here with the appropriate relative but hypothetical circumstances that could amount to a ban. The entire template we follow to post reports here needs to be rewritten.
I bot 24/7, you could say, because I am logged into WoW 24/7.. I bot when I feel like it, or I am going to be sidetracked with IRL.. (sex, drugs, alcohol etc) I could not tell you how many hours a day I bot, and I would just say 24/7 if I were to be banned and filled this report out. Does that information help anyone? No. Currently, the templates simply get us paranoid about which profiles we use and give us vague guidelines on how many auctions to post (which is common sense anyways).
Things like heroics&raids / week, total AP, bots ilvl etc need to be added. Not the last profile used when banned, but a list of the 3-5 most used profiles by the banned botter. Not how much time you spent staring at your screen for absolutely no reason while your bot was running, but instead tell us roughly how many times you log out/day and for how long. How many characters were on the banned account, and what were all their levels. How social were you with other players on a scale of 1-10? This information is vital in proving that an account is a personal, singly owned main account for a no-lifer... which is exactly what we all want to prove to blizz when we are banned... that or "i got hacked".
Without this information being provided to us through ban reports, there is no way of mediating what type of activity blizz feels is necessary to deem an account legitimate after banning it and investigating. Frankly, the current ban reports help no one.. None of us here care whether someone else got banned, all we care about is not getting our accounts banned and why that person got the hammer. Surely an account with a bare ilvl, never done a heroic, has no AP etc and bots 24/7 with a single public profile or quests 24/7 and never talks to anyone will be banned.. It'd help to have more relevant details about these banned accounts, so we can get a better idea on the requirements blizzard has for sticking with their ban after an appeal/investigation. As of now, the only piece of information on these reports that is even remotely useful when informing others of your ban is how many hours you ran it/day.. and even that information is getting clouded these days. Blizzard is caring less and less about these things, because there are much more definitive points and cases to be made when applying a ban to someones account.
I bot 24/7, you could say, because I am logged into WoW 24/7.. I bot when I feel like it, or I am going to be sidetracked with IRL.. (sex, drugs, alcohol etc) I could not tell you how many hours a day I bot, and I would just say 24/7 if I were to be banned and filled this report out. Does that information help anyone? No. Currently, the templates simply get us paranoid about which profiles we use and give us vague guidelines on how many auctions to post (which is common sense anyways).
Things like heroics&raids / week, total AP, bots ilvl etc need to be added. Not the last profile used when banned, but a list of the 3-5 most used profiles by the banned botter. Not how much time you spent staring at your screen for absolutely no reason while your bot was running, but instead tell us roughly how many times you log out/day and for how long. How many characters were on the banned account, and what were all their levels. How social were you with other players on a scale of 1-10? This information is vital in proving that an account is a personal, singly owned main account for a no-lifer... which is exactly what we all want to prove to blizz when we are banned... that or "i got hacked".
Without this information being provided to us through ban reports, there is no way of mediating what type of activity blizz feels is necessary to deem an account legitimate after banning it and investigating. Frankly, the current ban reports help no one.. None of us here care whether someone else got banned, all we care about is not getting our accounts banned and why that person got the hammer. Surely an account with a bare ilvl, never done a heroic, has no AP etc and bots 24/7 with a single public profile or quests 24/7 and never talks to anyone will be banned.. It'd help to have more relevant details about these banned accounts, so we can get a better idea on the requirements blizzard has for sticking with their ban after an appeal/investigation. As of now, the only piece of information on these reports that is even remotely useful when informing others of your ban is how many hours you ran it/day.. and even that information is getting clouded these days. Blizzard is caring less and less about these things, because there are much more definitive points and cases to be made when applying a ban to someones account.
