Final Warning Appeal?

[bil_prat]

Today I was banned (possibly for leaving my account logged in and HB running when servers went down). Here's the email I received:

Greetings <REDACTED>,

* * * NOTICE OF FINAL WARNING * * *
Battle.net Account: <REDACTED>
BattleTag: <REDACTED>

Action: Final Warning, 72 Hour Suspension
Violation: Exploitation/Abuse of Game Mechanics

This includes exploiting game design or advertising exploits to other players. These exploits damage another character, their gameplay, the service itself, or the game economy.


This is a final warning that all violations of the World of Warcraft Code of Conduct and Terms of Use must stop immediately (Blizzard Entertainment:World of Warcraft Terms of Use).

In addition to this final warning, your game license has been issued a suspension as detailed above. Your game license will not be available for play during this time.

As the account holder, you are responsible for the activity associated with this game license. The next violation of the World of Warcraft Code of Conduct or Terms of Use will result in permanent license closure.

This page contains details on how suspensions are appealed and reviewed:
http://www.battle.net/support/article/6741

Regards,

Customer Support

My question is: is this because of player reports for HonorBuddy, or could it be for another reason? The only other thing I can think of that I did was Bloody Coin farm (manually) outside HoL a few hours before I started botting again, and BTag added someone who managed to corpse camp me to bitch them out. I realize I'm an ass for doing this, but could this possibly be the reason I was suspended? I'm not really sure if that qualifies as an "exploit" other than that it let's me talk to the enemy faction, and people have done it to me before...

I was also using a macro program (AHK) to "manually" cast a spell every 10 minutes during the botting, if that helps.

So is it a bad idea to appeal this?

[D3Boost]

I mean..they could've permanently banned you if they bothered to look further into the botting thing. I'd say just leave it as is and you should be happy you didn't get your account permanently banned.

Plus appealing a suspension will rarely be in your favor.

[Augury13]

I don't think its ever a bad idea to appeal. If you weren't actually exploiting, technically that is third party software use and you weren't exploiting so maybe you could argue it.... Of course I wouldn't suggest telling them you were using a program but still.