Why is Anet closing any discussions about Botting?

#1 - Sept. 15, 2012, 3:49 a.m.
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I posted my Fears about the amount of botting going on in the game yesterday and log on to the forum today to find my thread closed. Not only was my thread closed but every other thread concerning botting and/or goldsellers has been closed. Are we not allowed to have some constructive criticism. I suspect that this thread won’t make it to the end of the day.

#17 - Sept. 15, 2012, 4:40 a.m.
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Hi everyone.

The whole team is fully aware of the problems that nowadays represent exploits, botting and gold-seller spamming to the community of players and their gaming experiences. We have read all the constructive critics so far, we keep them in mind, of course, and we are working to find a method and a solution for these problems.

We also have been stating that the best way to help us is to report immediately. Keep on doing this, please, any time you see something that does not seem in order. In the meantime we will keep on closing threads that notify an issue, we will thank you for that, but we will close them as we would like to keep the forums free from massive posts about exploits and spamming (having, as you have, other ways of helping us dealing with them).

I hope this explains the whole issue.
Thank you very much for your concerns.
(And ey, I will proceed now to lock the thread )