“What counts as boosting?” is what you ask, as if you ask it in the context of the topic, but then you give some examples of being the one who was boosted by friends as your attempt to debunk something.
So here I will debunk your thoughts.
What counts as boosting, is being a part of a boosting community and or third party service, who advertises boosting as some kind of a service and charges the “going rate” for such boosts. The rates start high at the start of a season, then decrease generally across the boards of all those who offer such services as the season ages. With cash values on heroic raid runs starting at around $250 at the start of a season and the in-game gold value being “equally comparable” to that cash amount. At the moment I see in-game prices of 75,000 to 100,000 gold for a fyrakk carry as a spot example.
What counts as being boosted by a third party company or boosting service sold by either a company or boosting community? buying boosts from them does.
What counts as boosting your friends? i think you can answer that.
Note, i did not suggest that people should be banned for boosting their guild or friends, nor did i suggest that someone should be banned for being boosted. It is the third party companies and boosting communities used by them which need to be addressed, along with the trade services channel in-game.
I doubt it has anything to do with this topic, but this morning after the update, when i logged in, the “trade services” channel had been auto re-enabled on all of my chat tabs.
It was even enabled in the combat log!
So i disabled it in the chat settings by unchecking the tickbox, then relogged and it was auto enabled again.
So now, not only is it auto enabled, it will auto re-enable itself across all of your chat tabs unless you hit the red button on the right hand side to unsubscribe from the channel completely.
For a channel which should be disabled and unsubscribed by default…