BOTs and what SE does / does not do.

[KaedrianLiang]

im certain action is in fact taken. The issue is that there is a lot of red tape GM investigators need to go through before hitting the account with the ban approved stamp.

The issue is that the botters will come back a 2nd or 3rd time as usually these bots are just bogus or even stolen accounts with just one class leveled. You need to follow them to their master.

For example:

http://i.imgur.com/0B76mwy.jpg

I caught two bots in the same vicinity returning, i figured i would follow them.

Edit: When they all d/ced at the same time that kinda sealed the deal.

Edit: these are spirit bond bots, they are the ones selling Materia in clumps at a time. The master is making accessories for them.

[Sairii]

Bots

Yes I know the spiritbond Bots. But on my server they are in larger numbers. Estimating around 90 active on my server every day. Estimated because you only see a fraction for a second.
Always a party of 4 bots queueing for dungeons over and over. Most of them in Uldah, have the same char data and about the same equip.
Spiritbonding magic ilvl 45 equip.

Thing is, that it is hard to counter them if they dont get banned fast.

And if they had a GM thats online, actively looking for them / banning, then they wouldnt need to "investigate" the data mess. Which I still doubt they do.