If it is illegal to sell/buy gold with real money, then shouldn’t streamers ( Like that balding guy ) who ask gold as donation, in their streams get banned too???..
In both scenarios, they are trading outside game thing for ingame thing. Gold sellers are trading gold for money, streamers are trading attention/spotlight for gold. And if streamers actions are legal, then maybe gold sellers are donating the gold to players and players are donating the money, and these two donations are not related to each other. If streamer is allowed to use outside game tools to make gold for himself, then how is that any different from buying gold with money? Money is just a tool too. If streamer is using his power as streamer to get gold from viewer, then again it is no different than me (I am poor af irl, so that is just figurative speech), using my power, what is money, to get gold.
Apples and pears.
Gold for real money is definitely not the same as gold for whatever ingame activity.
And asking gold as donation is basically the same as begging. And that is not against anything and even considered Vanilla tradition. 
It is as low as buying gold but modern blizz won’t ban streamers, not even if they are straight-forward exploiting/cheating on stream.
I guess activision management think getting kids interested on wow can get them buy some utter shait they make (cod etc. that no one over 14 touches)
But both are still fruits. See how small difference between these two actions are 
Even by texture, apple and pears are very similar.
Feels like quite a desperate move really…asking for gold in exchange for streaming?
I don’t think it’s really ban worthy but I can understand your logic.
What is low is the endless streamer hate from jealous dramaqueens.
Seriously, what are uptight people who complain and heckle ActivisionBlizzard (one and the same Company since the dawn of time) on every turn even doing playing this game and supporting their arch-enemy?
You can kneed your BS in every shape or form you want but its still BS. And it still stinks the same. 
Its also very telling of your level of insight that you insist that apples and pears are more the same than they are different. But i guess you have to stick to your narrative here. 
Can’t see how I would be jealous of those streamers, don’t watch them since I don’t find them enjoyable but seen lots of exploit clips.
And on activision. It is like nestle, epic games or EA. Companies everyone hate and should be purged from existance but sadly they provide couple of decent products (for ea mainly sport games if you are in to them) so you are sort of forced to support them (ofc you can deny yourself pleasure but that is no fun).
On actiblizz, it all started going downhill after merge, that is no longer opinion, so it is perfect target for bashing and can’t find anything that activision has done that deserves praise.
Vivendi was soulless corp that owned blizz back in day but at least at that time WoW was still the greatest.
Saw Jokerd do this when his account time was out. He asked for people to pay for his monthly subscription that douchebag.
The difference here is that there is only 1 receiving party. The streamer gets both gold and money from his community. 2 seconds of maybe fame for the person who sent it does not count.
They play games for a living and many make a shatload of money as well. They also have a large flock of followers. Yeah, its really sickening… but meanwhile you are choking on your envy.
Uhuh… 
Seriously mate, do the words ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘spineless’ ring any bells?
Get the fluff outta here with your fake indignation.
Stop counting other people’s gold and play your own game.
People are giving them gold just because, mostly. And it’s the same as low-level beggars begging for some gold in capitals, should we ban them too now?
That’s the stupidest comparison I’ve seen all week.
Well done.
Hows not? When streamer gets sent gold, it is not being sent anonymously. Their ingame name is visible, what means they get screen time of thousands of people, even tho it is only few seconds. And there is chance that streamer shouts out the donator name:“Thank you very much, XXXXXX for donating me 100g”. Was the donations made anonymously, then yes, you couldn’t pull parallels as trading, because there was nothing to gain for donator.
Why would anyone watch streamers now that people can actually play the game? I also watched some streams during the beta. But now I could not care any less about them. So I don´t really think many people are watching them and I don´t really think people are giving them gold. Why would they do that… gold has value in Classic…
If someone in game comes up and gives me 100 gold that isn’t the same as me buying gold from a website.
But are they actually begging in capitals? No they aren’t. They are using their streamer influence to get themselves a gold. That is no different, than rich guy using his influence to buy gold. Same thing, just in different form. If you are disapproving gold RMT, then shouldn’t you also disapproving what streamers are doing…
Yes I’ve seen beggars in capitals.
Your overall comparison is simply wrong, you’re trying too hard to sound like both situations are the same thing and they clearly aren’t.
And finally - why do you even care if some streamer gets some extra gold?
Yeah, if streamer spontaneously gets donate, nothing wrong in that. But if they are actually telling:“Hey, if you watching this stream and you got too much gold, then come find me in Ironforge and you can give me some of that”, this is no longer spontaneous donation, but rather influencing views to donate gold for them.
So, if I will beg for gold in game and will say “for that I will shout your name in trade chat once every hour!” I should get banned too? Cause, you know, im trading gold for spotlight/fame/attention?
Or as an option I will mention your name in EU forums thanking that guy? 