How about you game devs give us players useful tools to police each other vis a vis botters, spammers and the like. Such as an easy 1 or 2 click report feature that lets us be the eyes and ears for the GMs but still continue playing the game without bogging us down in lots of menus and having to type in detailed descriptions. These reports could then be scored in some way that allows the most important ones to become a priority for a GM to pop into a given instance to check out.
To make this an even more effective system the players that provide accurate reports could be given some sort of resource to allow them to purchase some special vanity items, such as pets or horse skins or the like while players making erroneous reports lose some of the resource or eventually get dropped from the program if they make too many bad reports.
On EVE Online, players have been known to embed themselves into corporations (guilds) and lie dormant for as much as a year or longer, quietly rising up the ranks, just to one day destroy that corporation. Gut it's assets, set it's players up for destruction, and as a final slap in the face -- post videos of the final betray on Youtube for everybody to enjoy.
What is my point?
People can't be trusted. On a private server with a small number of players, sure. You can assign GMs and if they screw up, you boot them and roll back the server. You have maybe a few hundred, or a few thousand annoyed players. No big deal.
If somebody pulls a sleeper cell scenario on an MMO, it becomes an international news article. The entire world looks on in laughter, and the game faces potential imminent death.
"But Sarenia, they could just not give those players any real tools of power!"
A player could still carefully set up other players for the banstick, recording their progress over time, and then launch a video documenting how they singelhandedly fooled ZOS and got players wrongly banned. Reviewers look on and criticize ZOS for not having the competence and manpower to police their own game.
"But Sarenia, Zenimax would obviously manually verify each report!"
Then why do they need player's with elevated privileges to begin with? It opens the door for accusations of corruption and favoritism, for little to no benefit. And if, Akatosh forbid it, they gave these players any real tools of power -- imminent doom awaits.
That's just one scenario. I could think of many more ways a player with elevated privileges like this to screw over ZOS. It's just a bad idea, sorry.
PS. Speaking in the third person is totally normal... I promise.