Just read that an quickfix was to remove the gold reward for the quest.
Rather than simply baning the farming bot accounts I would rater flag them, then automatically flag accounts who interact with them as middlemen who receive stuff from other accounts who is also bots and they give stuff to other accounts higher up, now take down the entire pyramid.
I know, and yes simply automatically suspending any account who took say 10 or more low level characters to coldharbor for exploiting would work better.Just read that an quickfix was to remove the gold reward for the quest.
Rather than simply baning the farming bot accounts I would rater flag them, then automatically flag accounts who interact with them as middlemen who receive stuff from other accounts who is also bots and they give stuff to other accounts higher up, now take down the entire pyramid.
Unfortunately, removing the gold reward for the quest isn't a "fix". This is a perfect example of a kneejerk reaction that won't solve an issue. Implementing this fix will just move the bots to another location.