Attention devs: Game Surveillance Unit re: open world Bots.

[Morningstar1337]

Gathering bot in Southern Thanalan. Reported him earlier today. He's been at it for HOURS.

That reminds me , why do you censor the names and chatlog?

[SalemP]

That reminds me , why do you censor the names and chatlog?

bc you're not allowed to post the character names on the forum. I guess it's considered player shaming or something. At least as far as I'm aware. The chat log is bc people in my FC are talking and I want to respect their privacy lol.

[Rhindas]

bc you're not allowed to post the character names on the forum. I guess it's considered player shaming or something. At least as far as I'm aware. The chat log is bc people in my FC are talking and I want to respect their privacy lol.

This is true. They will delete your post and temp ban your account if you don't censor the names, because they call it shaming.

[ToffeeCoffee]

This is true. They will delete your post and temp ban your account if you don't censor the names, because they call it shaming.

Which is rather ridiculous because if you hack (run 3rd party tools) you should get named and shamed - and subsequently banned.
If you aren't cheating then the result would be that you don't get banned and the post gets removed. There's no shame in that. They could even create a private forum that only the GSU can see where you can post pictures showing names and details of the alleged offence. Too much work for SE, they wont police the issue at all. It's hard to do anything about characters with their names blacked out but not impossible if server and coordinates are listed. Again, SE just doesn't care.