This is not about the advertising in the Trade channel (boosters can advertise there legitimately under the current rules), this is about the Group Finder Tool which is clogged up with advertisers. They are not permitted to advertise in the group finder under the current rules.
Go to your group finder and share how bad it is, reporting the ads seems to have little impact as the punishments are having no effect, they are mostly using throw away accounts and just relog and relist under another.
I’m hoping many of you will join in sharing your screenshots, so we can highlight how bad this issue is.
If you do not have Trust Level 3, don’t worry. You can paste in the URL of your screenshot, highlight it and press the </> button.
the url will end up looking like this:-
https://i.gyazo.com/840634ebfb3411df323ed3e83f1ddaf8.png
Do report them after taking screenshots 
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The raid section for me today in Group Finder Tool:-
That is only the ones with WTS somewhere in their description or title and only under raid, it’s the same issue under dungeons.
Torghast section:-
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I made screenshots, then tried to upload them, but there were so many that my data plan ran out. RIP.
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I think a good way to showcase the issue is to show the state of it even when you’re not specifically looking for WTS / boost groups.
Here I am just looking for a +6 and I got 4 boost groups pop up without even scrolling:
https://i.imgur.com/SQiE5oR.png
When I hover over one of them it doesn’t even contain the number 6 anywhere, so why is it even showing up?
Now when I search +15 a key people may actually want boosting in it’s a complete mess:
https://i.imgur.com/Ci00JTv.png
https://i.imgur.com/A6Ek9K9.png
We’re not even in prime time, it’s 2PM (uk time) on a Friday.
I’m also just now noticing that all of these boosters are using the voice chat tool just to advertise their websites.
And of course I’ll throw in a CN Heroic screen shot (and people wonder why some want queues for raids?):
https://i.imgur.com/0FxuBvO.png
It’s like this the whole way down.
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“insert obligatory it’s all because of WoW token comment here”
On serious note it’s pretty sad to see the state the game right now, reminds me of those mediocre free to play mmos which are overflown with wts gold/boost spams.
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I would love to see Blizzard treat people who list stuff in group finder the same as those multiboxing with software/hardware workarounds. I wont hold my breath though 
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I can hold it for you.
Just show me that slender neck of yours, I’ll bring the vise.
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You know there is a big chance of blizzard take down your topic.
I know it’s a risk it might just be locked/unlisted/404ed out but I honestly think it’s an issue worth highlighting.
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It’s not just people selling boost for gold (which would be worse enough).
There’s also a ton of advertisements linking to third-party sites that actually sell boosts for real money.
https://i.imgur.com/8NgdoV7.png
https://i.imgur.com/wzTvTjn.png
https://i.imgur.com/7GYDoqG.png
There’s also a ton of people linking their discord for contact, which makes me think it might be for real money aswell.
https://i.imgur.com/G6JUHIL.png
Stuff like this is up 24/7 with nothing being done about it. Even Youtube shows me more and more boosting ads while watching wow videos.
Seriously, start enforcing the rules.
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Even some groups on trade chat at RMT.
They ask you to join on discord after where they talk about price trying to dodge blizzard.
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Yeah that’s pretty much what I assumed. But those people asking you to contact them on discord atleast try to hide it. Others don’t even try, but seem to get away with it just as well.
You need at less a char level 50 or 51 to create a group on LFD, so that people are wasting money to place the add if Blizzard took them down it wouldn’t work the price just for advertise.
Nah he’s not linking anything bad. He’s not name shaming and his post doesn’t break TOS. Although if he keeps linking other people’s post that don’t hide the name he might get some posts deleted.
I doubt someone would risk their MVP status for that.
Cant be bothered to upload all screenys. Yesterday lunch time was 2 legit 15 keys to apply for. And over 30 WTS ads, that’s literally 15x more ads then keys to apply for. Was a pain actually going through it all to find something to join…
The thing is you can’t even blame the players really. Blizz nerfed the hell out of legit money making farms to stop bots, which inadvertently made boosting pretty much mandatory. People that want an edge next season are gonna need 4-5 mill to buy all 4 mythic raid BoEs. Which is actually a big help for pushing keys/raid early on. Good luck getting that skinning/herbing/mining at 10k an hour lol. Or even less running old raids.
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