do people still get banned for afking in bgs?

[MattsMom]

The problem is getting worse and worse on alliance. I am the best pugger around and I can't carry my team if we have 4 AFK at stables in AB or 2 sitting dead at the gy in WSG. It's cool if someone afks once in a while, everyone does it but to do it for hours is a different thing. I am not a snitch and I never have in my life and never will so unfortunately I can't report these leeches but I know multiple other people do but the same afkers are still around. Plz help us

[Raahl]

You could try reporting them while playing, not sure if it is an actionable offense, but let the GM decide.

[Tyrael]

Greetings MattsMom,

We actively monitor BGs for AFKers when we have the manpower to do so and request reports via an in-game ticket created from the Stuck or Behavior/Harassment issue types. Players caught will be warned and repeat offenders have the potential to be banned.

Regards,
GM Tyrael

[Wagnard]

The population is huge, and it's not blizzlike to punish people for afking BGs. I advise you GMs to not waste your time with unnecessary endeavours. Even if I hate AFKers, I don't like seeing people get banned, I don't like seeing you waste your resources, and I don't like stressing if I feel like going AFK for a game or two either, and don't want to miss out on the honor.

[g0dl1k3]

The population is huge, and it's not blizzlike to punish people for afking BGs. I advise you GMs to not waste your time with unnecessary endeavours. Even if I hate AFKers, I don't like seeing people get banned, I don't like seeing you waste your resources, and I don't like stressing if I feel like going AFK for a game or two either, and don't want to miss out on the honor.

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[Setup]

The population is huge, and it's not blizzlike to punish people for afking BGs. I advise you GMs to not waste your time with unnecessary endeavours. Even if I hate AFKers, I don't like seeing people get banned, I don't like seeing you waste your resources, and I don't like stressing if I feel like going AFK for a game or two either, and don't want to miss out on the honor.

This is actually incorrect.

As far back as classic AV, players have received warnings from GMs not just for AFKing, but even for "defending" shrubs in the middle of nowhere while at their keyboard. Blizzard's policy has always been to warn or ban individuals who act in a way that's contrary to the ''spirit of the battleground.''

Their actual enforcement of that policy was very lackluster, particularly after they introduced the self-reporting AFK/Botting mechanisms in later expansions. In fact, I doubt those anyone except those who played in retail vanilla would even remember this kind of thing.

Furthermore, even if it wasn't Blizzard's policy, that wouldn't be reason in and of itself for Nost to pursue that course of action.. but that's a moot point, because it was.

[Blaze]

The population is huge, and it's not blizzlike to punish people for afking BGs. I advise you GMs to not waste your time with unnecessary endeavours. Even if I hate AFKers, I don't like seeing people get banned, I don't like seeing you waste your resources, and I don't like stressing if I feel like going AFK for a game or two either, and don't want to miss out on the honor.

This post just screams "selfish moron."

So let me get this straight you don't feel like stressing if you go AFK for a game or two (even a 3 cap WSG against a premade takes 8-10 minutes), but you also don't care about the time you are wasting for the 9 other people involved.

Scriptcraft had a report player afk option as a vanilla server, i can't imagine it being too difficult to implement here as well.

[Arise]

I strongly agree with warning and after multiple offenses even banning bg-afk'ers. Such annoying, selfish and game-ruining behavior.