From doing some digging around, I've seen multiple instances of people whining about getting temp banned for using certain mainstream botting programs and the weekly illicit activity reports also suggest that people are indeed being punished for this behavior.

The thing is, I've been reporting the same persistent botters who operate almost 24/7 for over a year now (Though at staggered intervals of about a month or so), yet every last one of them is still here despite demonstrating what should be overwhelming amounts of evidence against them from their activity times/patterns.

I don't know if they're doing something special to avoid detection from whatever methods are being used or what, but I'm getting really sick of these players constantly dominating the market board with their automated farming and do NOT look forward to this continuing into Shadowbringers because it's gotten significantly worse since I first started playing.

I feel like they need to start getting the GMs on their case as well, because whatever the STF is doing clearly isn't working.