RMT Enforcement - Something Interesting is happeneing

[Kosmos992k]

It's possible, since something similar happened during XI's prime days. SE made some (temporarily) effective moves to combat certain types of RMT, the bans were abundant for a short while after. These things tend to lose their fire though sooner or later. Expect a decrease in effective bans, especially when RMT inevitably finds a way to circumvent SE's countermeasures.

Short of masking their names on tell, say or shout, I'm not sure what they can do to circumvent the quick reporting of the RMT spam accounts. They might further distance the spam accounts from the rest of their accounts, but if this is a war of attrition SE has shown that they continue to track RMT accounts effectively. Sometimes more effectively than others. Even using a VPN to mask your IP address there are still ways to identify accounts running on the same client (for example), which I am sure can be used to effectively trace accounts. Not to mention a wealth of behavioral information SE has collected that better enable them to trace RMT activity.

If people continue to report bots as well as the spammers - even though it takes a bit more effort to report 'bots, even a small % increase in bot reports would result in far more of the farming/crafting bots and other accounts being traced and eliminated.