Mining Bot

[Sivara]

After GW2 launched, ppl thought they weren't* doing* anything, but in reality they were watching and learning what methods the people use to bot/hack/spam and working on ways to counter them. They would then wait a while and ban them all in massive waves of thousands of accounts. I guess because if you ban them one at a time or just ban a few, then they come up with something new right away because they know you're onto them. Or something.

Not saying that is or isn't what's happening here, just pointing out another recent game that had a similar situation

*edits for making the sentence make sense

Ohhh...this makes sense. Why did I not think of this? I really hope this is what SE is doing because I'm sick of seeing people I've reported as bots still in the game.

ETA: They may also need to gather sufficient evidence to build a case and look for patterns in behavior so that they will know what to reinforce/fix in the future.