Where did I say I supported botting? I said banning bots will do absolutely nothing to fix the issue except make some that need to see 'action' feel better. I said to follow the money.

SE does take action but banning the open world bots will not do anything but spawn more bots. Likely it is couriers & advertisers banned which you never see in the open world. Depending on the software being utilized it is much easier to catch some bots than others through automated detection routines. Player reports are the least effective means of bot detection and typically a waste of administrative resources. People tend to have personal motivations for reporting others and dealing with 'he said she said' is a waste of time and money when you could put that towards developing better detection algorithms.

I feel bad for SE because no matter what they do about a problem that is never going to go away there are always going to be dissenters that want to gripe that not enough is being done.