How do you keep /away (AFK) status on all the time?

[mbncd]

A lot of gathering bots have the away icon on too, it's crazy obvious...

The game is so sensitive to even the slightest input that a high DPI mouse will cancel your away status (due to perceived movement even when there is none) unless you change the active window away from the game within a mere 2-3 seconds of setting the status. Actively moving the mouse, using your game pad or your keyboard (even just to activate macros that will reset your away status after the aforementioned 2-3 seconds) will all obviously cancel it too.


Edit: Oh, and just for the record, FFXIV has never had an automatic un-away system that didn't affect the manual /away status. It was implemented in the patch just before I made that thread. Non botters used /afk regularly while actively playing and it would not be removed until they removed it (or until they were logged out due to errors or a maint). That's rather part of what gave rise to the issue in that thread, the fact that we could no longer choose when to remove the /afk status.