Bot reporting?

[Jillian]

It's not a false report if the reporter doesn't know for a fact that no cheating is going on. The reporter needs only suspect cheating might be going on to file a report. I've seen bots afk at gathering nodes, so it's not like bots don't do it. Players (including the ones suspected of cheating) can't get in trouble if they aren't doing anything wrong.

I know a person just needs to suspect a player of cheating in order to report. However, just being afk at a node is not a good reason to suspect somebody is botting. When I report somebody for botting, I look for obvious signs of it, such as the bot dismounting at the exact same time every game day to gather at a timed node.

Making general reports about suspected bots without providing specific details on botting activity that the reporter has observed does not help the STF out. The STF needs concrete evidence to take action against gathering bots and reporting a person for being afk at a node does not provide that. It just wastes the STFs time.