Former gamemaster answers a question about botting.

[Maisteri]

I used to bot a lot, like 4-8 different accounts running all the time when I wasn't playing myself. Everyone that knew me, knew about this. I never hid it from anyone, we talked about it openly, even in the guild. The only rule was to never call it "botting", but "piping" (came from a long joke, w/e).Anyway, this lasted for atleast 2 years where this word was so common and I made barely any attempts to hide my botting habits, yet I've never been caught, at all.
So my question: Do you actually read any of the chat of players you suspect to be botting?

No. This is all done by scripts. We never read chats unless it's about harassment.

That kind of makes me sad. I supported my guild (3rd on server) by botting and making massive amounts of gold to buy stuff for raids and the like. I thought I was being sneaky too

Most GMs just don't give that much of a **** about it. It's just a job afterall. No reason to throw you sanity away for that.

So reporting people for botting is just useless because GM's don't actually look at them?

We do add them to a list that is checked daily. The script will check out bots based on that list, so reporting isn't usless.

Source: DNAW comments on IAMA former Blizzard customer service representative for WoW aka Gamemaster. AMAA

Proof that he actually is a gamemaster: http://imgur.com/XKx6Q

How is that image proof?
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[TheIlluminati]

*rubs hands*