Quote Originally Posted by Breakbeat View Post
There are definitely, without a doubt, a slew of people who would sit there and put in fifty reports for fifty bots. Shoot, they'd do that before they make their morning coffee. The fact is that anyone who lurks or participates in online discussion about bots should accept this as a given. There's folks out there that dedicate their whole existence to the community policing of bots... and get vehemently upset when their grassroots efforts to 'prosecute' the bots come to naught.
Unfortunately for every player who is going to sit there and send in those reports (even though it's not needed, SE knows they're there), there are 5 players eager to buy gil from those bots.

Ban a bot, and another one has taken its place 3 days later.

Then there are the players who are happy with the bots because they keep the price of the gathering mats (esp the aethersands) low on the marketboard. Sometimes I wonder if that's why SE isn't overly aggressively in removing them.