Ninja Loot

Q u o t e:
Ninja-ing is, in fact, a bannable offense. The people above do not know what they are talking about.

I'm afraid this isn't entirely correct, and there is a matter of semantics at hand.

Ninja Looting, by definition, is taking loot out of turn, or taking loot that you did not earn. By the nature of how loot in World of Warcraft works, this is actually not possible in any way. If you did not participate in the combat, you can't get that loot. If you are set to Master Looter, then you have complete access to all loot you were present for.

What we do help with, however, is the issue of scams. In this case, if a raid leader were to give very specific loot rules at the beginning of a raid, or advertise those loot rules in trade as a way to bring people in, and they then violate those self-set rules agreed upon by the raid, we are more than happy to investigate the situation and take appropriate action. There's an element of misinformation and misdirection that needs to be present. If you want to see the lowdown on our official stance, we have a page dedicated to it here:

http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=17761

Simply joining a raid where someone is the Master Looter is not a guarantee you will have a chance at the loot - in fact, you are only guaranteeing that the individual with Master Looter has total control over where they want that loot to go. If they never agreed upon an alternate method, then they aren't violating any of our in-game loot distribution systems.

For this reason, I must stress that you either obtain full and specific loot rules when first joining a pick-up group, in raid chat, or you only raid with those you know personally and trust to fairly distribute loot. Something like MS > OS isn't enough for us to determine loot rules. They don't specify HOW loot is being distributed - what you needed to do to win the item. However, letting us know something like Highest Roll on item wins is an entirely different story. =)