Recent 24 hours I know of at least 3 ppl in different guilds on my server (one in mine) that got banned for farming a LOT of linen cloth and mailing it to alts. Talking perma ban for mailing 3k+ linen between chars.
Blizzard be like: Farm 800 000 linen for war effort.
Also Blizzard: Ban them all.
Just a qq post to warn ppl not to send too much mails to different chars etc…
My guess is they’d be banned for botting to obtain these items. Not the items themselves.
YEah should be that , Bot deserve to get ban whatever they farm for …
On my server people farm since a while and sending mats to alt and yet noone get banned.
It’s not against the rules to send/store a lot of stuff. I am handling around 2500 stacks of stuff myself right now. Have done for months. I don’t bot or share my account and is not breaking EULA.
So yeah before to complain on the forum, make sure the people you talk about play by the rules…
Smells like botting to me, i have multiple bank alts where i mail tons of materials with on a daily base. Never been a problem.
Why are you concentrating on the mailing and not how they got the items?
Because I do not assume my pals are lying to me, I suppose.
Some people don’t see botting as doing something wrong.
I know of several poeple too that this happend to, I know some of them are not botting so that argument is invalid. Now u may not believe me i cant do anything about that but its happening all the same
So not all of them then? People won’t usually tell you if they are botting, all they can do is appeal the ban, usually it takes a few tries to get the ban cleared if you are not guilty of it.
Ik of people who were not botting, got permanently banned for botting, complained about it and got unbanned 1 week later
Was the recieving alts on fairly new wow accounts? That would probably be a red flag for blizzard, maybe even if they were on the same battlenet account. Farming something for too long without a break may also increase the risk of getting banned wrongfully. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people in question here was botting though.
Well i dont know every1 that has been banned, and even among people that i do know i dont know everyone equally good. So i cant say that no1 was botting and no1 deserved a ban. im saying some bans was 100% not botting.
Now maybe they got cought up in some automated process that found them suspicious but people got unwarranted bans theres no denying that
I used to be very sceptical whenever I’d see a thread like that. But after having seen how messy blizzard bans really are, now I tend to believe people when they say they’re wrongly banned.
You’d think so. But no.
The system auto flags anyone trading “large amounts” of stuff, ESPECIALLY for “nothing”. aka mailing 3k cloth to another char or such.
The system is broken and calling everyone caught unfairly in it a liar isn’t gonna help improve it.
You’ll likely not see Blizzard admitting they made a mistake but they have overturned many “permanent” bans in the past when it came to light that the players banned for botting did, in fact, not bot.
Gather 1k linen cloth and then mail it to a guy in your guild. See what happens 
I get bored farming 100 cloth let alone multiple 1000’s. Dunno how you can be bothered to do it tbh.
But that’s off topic.
Sure, me too. I don’t think anyone is enjoying having to farm that much but you can’t go blaming the players for playing the game. We didn’t decide to make it literally HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of bandages, bars etc etc.
If it’s a false positive they can appeal, if it’s a positive, they got banned. It’s would be dumb if it’s a false positive prior to war effort but Blizzard happens.