This can be pinpointed to a specific instance where your friendly botters on the server have been occupying 1 toon spread out across 16-20 zone instances, macroing zone pulls, subsequently lagging the server out to the point where the rest of the server has been suffering from this. I've been automatically killing instances where this exists and will be addressing said botters (you know who you are); and I've not had adequate time to really address the situation as I've been neck deep in work and then leading hard into the holidays which have been very busy for me and always is when you do a lot to support your family, sprinkle an emergency room visit for your grandmother in there as well
Why don't we ever "out" these friendly botters publicly? Would be nice to know as I am sure not many people would be willing to do trades, etc. with these people....or better yet why not ban them outright? Better to be shot of people like this than to have people who screw the ENTIRE server over!
To what end?
So we know who is doing it and maybe people not buying/trading from these people will limit people from trying to do this for profit. Ultimately it effects the server economy negatively.
Humans are also social creatures. Public shame has been shown to be an effective rehabilitation tool and deterrent. Heck, Buff Bot shouts out your name (right before she kills you) if you spam her too much. Publicly outing botters is just an extension of this same line of reasoning.