Quote Originally Posted by Malzian View Post
It does matter what their reasoning is. They KNOW that one individual is just a small player in the ring and they can spend ages busting the individual players and it won't get them anywhere. Instead, SE aims for the larger distributors and works on breaking the rings circulating the currency that the bots produce. Also, if you read the paragraph for the 'Report Cheating' button it says clearly, "Please note that we are unable to provide individual responses to reports." so you shouldn't expect a response to any report you make.
We're not talking about one or two. It's dozens. Outright banning the people doing it would be quite the impact. It would directly reduce the botting by removing the bots, would have people think twice before doing it and it wouldn't reduce the number of reports they get from people like myself who see the same bots months after reporting them.

It seems like you're saying you can bot without getting punished as long as you're a small fry? How is many more bots better than a few big botters? FATE botting by people that just want easy leveling goes against what you're saying.

I'm not talking about GM or any manual form of response, but an automated response when the report is processed in some manner and not just when it 'goes in the pile'. The automated response you currently receive upon sending the report would be fine if there were some other tools the players had, but there aren't any. No record of who was reported, when they were reported AND no response other than the generic one on sending, so players have to report and pray action is eventually taken against the bots? Why would they do that? Answer: They won't