Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
That said, I don't see why they couldn't just broaden what behavior the GMs are capable of acting on. Literally all it would take to get rid of most bots would be to simply contact the suspect individual and ban them if they refuse to respond after several attempts.
and you could just as easily false flag innocent people by doing this you realize. You can turn off/minimize your chatbox and turn off game sounds, rendering someone incapable of ever realizing they're being contacted. GM thinks unaware person looks sketchy, sends them a few tells, person never responds, bam. innocent person banned.

Which is basically the reason why banning is slow/never. Square's system is setup that it requires an extreme amount of evidence for someone to be banned, hence why things like stuff said in text chat is so easy to get banned over compared to botting, due to text chat being concrete evidence on their server logs. It doesn't matter if it looks like a duck, if it sounds like a duck, Square won't ban them unless they 100% know for sure it is a duck, and if they think even the slightest bit its a goose, they'll continue investigating and won't convict.