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Re: Banned accounts

#340816
From: Urbin
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:28
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:07:17 +0000 (UTC), Lewis wrote:
>  In message <4d7fec38$0$10198$9a6e...@unlimited.newshosting.com> 
>    Matthew <iamacat...@proudtoserve.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Polarhound" <polar...@comcast.net> wrote in message 
> > news:vaRfp.31230$d46.26059@newsfe07.iad...
> >> On 3/15/2011 4:55 PM, Matthew wrote:
> >>> All over the forums people are talking about the Mass banning of bot
> >>> accounts and gold buying account.  Blizzard is definite to slow about it
> >>> sometimes
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Not at all.
> >>
> >> They have ALWAYS done them in large batches.  It makes for a bigger show.
> >>
> >> On the plus side, it gives me a near-endless supply of tears to feed on.
> 
> > Oh I know they do it in large batches  but they need to do it more often ;-) 
> 
>  It is MUCH more effective to ban 10,000 gold spammers in one day than
>  1,000 a day for ten days.

Ah, but imagine if they banned 10k gold spammers a day for ten days. That
would get rid of them :-)

Of course, they might need to start banning normal players halfway through
day 7 if they run out of spammers ;-)

Cheers
Urbin
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