While I agree with you that there must be something more to the story, I disagree with your statement that action taken = you had to do something wrong. You can get autobanned from mass reports just for writing in Battleground chat which AV graveyards should be prioritized.
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I dont care if the reports are justified or not, but fact is that fishing bot places are valiance keep AND some spots in grizzly hills.
I dont say that you dont manually do it but people are trigger happy and just report without second thought unless you are a level 19 or 29 pvp twink with a fishing hat.
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thanks i appreciate it
It’s probably your name.
I thought drug references are against the naming rules.
You must be bored out of your brain doing all that fishing and are using something to autocast.
Fishing can be addictive, long ago I spent 4 solid weeks fishing the floating wreckage in Tanaris, I had two bank alts with bags full of everything from the mithril bound chests and held the AH market for alchemy fish and cloth bolts making a massive amount of gold that comfortably saw me into TBC and epic flying as soon as I hit 70.
I was also reported for botting as fishing for that length of time can leave one braindead and not very social, why reply to whispers from nobodies when it could make me miss a cast? My account was investigated and they found nothing because I wasn’t botting in any way shape or form, just no lifeing to the max
I dont deny the existence of fishing bots, I know they exist and encountered some myself but I can definitely say without a doubt that once you get into a zone with fishing it’s hard to get back out of it. A good movie, good music something to smoke or drink and hours can fly by without you knowing. The instant returns from the AH are also a great incentive to keep going.
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Now that’s some real dedication 
I also spent quite a bit of time skilling fishing and getting my hands on all sorts of trunks during vanilla but nowhere near to 7 hours or something.
I´m also quite curious how one watches a movie or whatever while he is fishing. You still have to pay attention to the fishing bobber, if you wait too long, your fish will be gone.
You let an addon or something do it for you.
No, you will not get autobanned from reports, at most you will get silenced. but you will not get banned.
But there may be a ban if a player is doing something wrong.
I am interested in how the OP fishes. Are they using addons?
Enable wow sound in background put it at 100% volume, while movie at 50%. Hear a splash sound, click the bobber
Yes, thats what i have been saying. If you get banned from reports it is because something is left out from the story.
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So either acticity needs to be interrupted continuously. Sounds like you can´t enjoy the movie or the fishing.
Bots be bots.
Yup, had to do that when leveling fishing cause it was so boring.
I’ve heard about this, but never actually seen it. It’s more like a hopeful urban legend for me, especially with all the bots around.
Tanaris is BIS, I made 12k gold from fishing there in Classic while waiting for those 1,5-hour AV queues to pop.
I can watch movie while raiding and eating dinner. And i can enjoy all of them at the same time.
This is probably the most accurate way to describe what is happening here.
Dude, you are fishing for 7h a day. You are a bot or gold seller.
Good riddance for getting reported and banned. Blizzard should put daily play time limit. Max 4h a day, and then you are disconnected for addiction.
Go get a job you bum. And then play like the redt of us, 2h a day, while juggling 3 kids, 2 wives, and buying gold because no time to play.
Not for a second to imply that I 100% buy everything about OP’s story at face value, but the fact that people are arbitrarily trying to police the exact amount of time that someone may or may not spend fishing in a 20 year old RPG is an absolutely fantastic meme.
Let’s keep pretending that mass-reporting hasn’t been a demonstrably viable way to get someone unjustly actioned since WoD. 
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Have you ever done Achievement gold in the fountain and company? You fish hours and hours and hours in Dalaran fountain.
I did also fish for turtle mount - long hours on phone, fishing and talking to customers 
You can play working, but no dungeons, no BGs no real questing. But fishing you can do.
And is a places in Northrend where you can fish as low level. I love fishing and do always 