Quote Originally Posted by Laeore View Post
I gotta say that once a week I get a tell from someone testing me if I'm a bot and half the time I don't respond. They get angry and threaten to report, and because I'mnot here to justify anyone's paranoia of whether I'm a bot or not, I don't care. I'm not teleport glitching. I'm not hurting anyone. Heck, sometimes I don't even see the tell because I'm watching TV or the chat log fills up so fast. This is just a vigilante witch hunt because people are overly-sensitive to a real problem that can only be solved by devs.
Half the time? Don't respond at all if you don't want to. Let them report you. Absolutely nothing will be done if you aren't botting. Please don't place me in the same category as people who ask someone to respond to prove they aren't botting, lol.

People performing routine steps is not good enough proof of botting, even if someone is doing something a bit odd. However, when dozens of people are doing the same odd step, without any deviation, then there is a high likelihood of botting. In the link in the OP, there are six people zoning in and moving to the same spot before mounting up and flying away. Doesn't matter where they load in, they will all move to that spot before mounting up and flying off.

I'll play devil's advocate and say that all six know each other and are performing the same steps as part of some custom they have. As unlikely as that is, it is a valid excuse. The problem is, if you accept that as a valid reason, the same excuse can be used for all manner of botting as long they don't use hacks. Let me ask you: What proof would you need to say that someone is using a bot to automate gameplay?

Some players doing this have the gatherers maxed with only one DoW/DoM class at 60. Those would probably fall into the category of accounts made simply to farm. There are others that have cleared a12s and/or own houses.