And how would this be enforced? By hiring live GMs that the community has been crying for for a decade on normal servers? So let me get this straight: Blizzard finally hires GMs and proceeds to use them on a weird niche server where things that have been normal since early vanilla are for some reason banned. Great idea! I hope Blizzard listens to you!
I believe most of these things would be solved with an effective anti-bot system in place.
If access to RMT were non-existent or extremely limited, it would take actual economic activity to gather gold to pay for boosts, carries and gbids. But because of the pain of doing so, its scope would be much less felt.
Now, would a server without bots be populated? I certainly believe so.