There's no way to "fix" this without penalizing legitimate players too and I find that to be an unacceptable solution. If you know who these players are simply don't play with them. I've seen parties before that start with "If I see you on auto-follow you're going to be ousted". All these people will have are the numbers and no skill to go with it.

No matter what they do people will do this regardless. Yes it's just as lazy and stupid as botting but they will do it either way. I'm not defending them but I'd really rather not see legitimate players inconvenienced in any way by SE trying to stop this.