Bots certainly don't seem to get dealt with in any reasonable time frame. Market or Gathering. I've seen the same ones and report the same ones each day, that literally sit online 24/7 non-stop.

If they wanted to do anything about them they'd break the Gathering bots because then the market bots wouldn't have the supply to constantly undercut, strangle the weeds by destroying the roots.

It wouldn't even be that much work to nail any of the bots. Heck if they use SQL database you could do a query literally for how long their session for the character has been active. Heck, sit a person at gathering nodes like Sandalwood Sap and Ala Mhigan Rock Salt and you'd net at least 2-3 bots an hour. For the market bots just do a check on number of actions per minute and items on market and how long they've been in a given zone/not afk. Pretty easy you could automate that whole query set to identify and ban.

One week and you'd break the backs of most bots that are currently out there.