do something about the bots

[Dustytome]

If you ban a bot they will return in less than an hour the only true way to get rid if them is to do what blizzard did and hit them somewhere that's not easy to recover from their wallets.

It depends on how much gil they can make in an hour. They have to make it and pool it before getting snuffed out so they can sell it. They aren't being banned in an hour, they're being taken out in waves after a week+ which gives them plenty of time to make it worth repeating. If these are auto-flagged accounts (which I assume from the reported numbers), maybe they can make the gil earned by the player stick so it can't be spent/transferred. If there was a mistake made on the flag, they can just unlock the 'stick' variable that blocks the gil from being useful on that account.