WotLK AFK In bg's

[Zeton]

Is it against the rules to just join bg after bg and afk from start to finish? Almost every bg i join on Blackrock either my team or the enemy team has like 3-4 afk people in spawn. Often times it's the same people for hours and it's extremely frustrating.

The rules say "Avoiding the AFK kick mechanism in Battlegrounds: Do not join Battlegrounds if you aren't willing to help others to win. Using bots or anything else to keep you from being kicked by our anti-afk system is not allowed." But i dont know if that's only when people are actually using bots or other programs.

[saadmm]

if they do make anyone get reported as afk more than 5 time inactive and if he did not deal any damage/heal in the time he get kicked would make it easier for us

[skejp]

Already reported same guy who is afking in BGs with multiple accounts and 15 different characters like 10 times at least. GM just answered he will take a look about it and nothing more happened. Only empty words. This guy is still afking in BGs on Blackrock all day long and farming honors while doing nothing. Thats a bit of shame noone from GM Team cant solve this problem.

Thanks.

[Zeton]

Yeah i took screens and opened an in-game ticket. No answer as of today (made it yesterday), but i'll just have to wait and see.

[ahmed133]

even if you do that , have you ever see someone get banned for afk in bg ? NO of course NOT

[Sakusesu]

So far all botters I reported on Icecrown have been punished, one needed multiple reports cause he was active at AH(guess you get lots of gold to play with when you cap honor several times/day).
And that one pesky guy is actually free and judging by the heroic items invested in the character...traded/legit now(small temp ban I guess). Depends on who reads the ticket and how experienced/thorough they are.

Focus on exposing the bot rather than the fact that they're just afk, the spam they do with random buff+attempt to mount..rogues do the non-stop stealth, pop all big cds move several yards and wait for cds again.
If you see their bots working while queued in the city GMs might take a bit more of their time.