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almost 3 years ago - /u/JagexLight - Direct link

I raised this issue on Wednesday 5th May to the Anti-Cheating team. They kindly told me that we'd banned ~6400 goldfarmers from Tuesday to Wednesday this week. This is something we're looking into and we appreciate you raising this to us. Please continue doing so, it helps us in CM a lot when it comes to reporting bots/RWT/goldfarming back to the wider team.

There isn't really an excuse but I will add a bit more context to help you guys understand more of where we're coming from. Farming gold itself is not against our TOS. We cannot ban accounts that farm gold daily until they have engaged or are engaging with RWT.

We can profile these accounts but our bans need to be justified, meaning that without evidence we cannot ban based on suspicion.

We have raised the fact that lots of goldfarmers should be banned based on looking at the HiScores. We use the HiScores to help us identify these accounts, however we will not operate on a fixed schedule due to the fact that gold farmers may work their gold selling schedule around this.

I hope this helps and will look to improve communication on this with you guys.