Someone claimed to have gotten leechers banned as bots

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Unlikely. NCSoft support are extremely reluctant to ban anybody in my experience.

If you report a leecher with the date and time of the incident, the NCSoft staff's logs cannot demonstrate to the them that the player was idle for the entire duration of the match.

I find this JQ guy's claims hard to believe.

would be nice....but, highly unlikely.
(especially at this time of the year---few staff means very little getting done).

B+ for effort.

Wait, what????

Probably depends on the type of leecher (I'm sure there are genuine afkr's that get called out by trigger happy kiddies). When I was doing the Lurzick & Kuxon titles. I seen a lot of "Report this person!" I always made my own mind up and if they were still standing at the spawny place after 20 minutes. They'd get a book token for Christmas.

I'd hope to think that Anet would have some sort of investigation procedure

This depends on a few things i reckon.
Anet does have a leecher report option to which they probably can check ( no idea how anet checks things ) and i know they can stop them entering pvp for a while and probably more if a repeat offender.
Fear Factor is what i call the other option - who doesnt fear being banned by anet ?
Ive seen players in pve report players for being an ass , even seen players supposidly reporting players for failing in a run.
As for being bots - ive never used nor seen a bot program so i cant say much but only from bots in pve ages ago who used to run same path and route and get stuck in same place each time so dunno if you can get a leechbot.

I had to stop roflmao when i read the leechers are worse than bots - i bet if they got in a team against bots and got their asses whipped they would change their tune.
Leechers just sit and leech - they have no effect on the economy.Bots farm and harm the economy and more often used by gold sellers.
How many players would be up in arms if bots farmed uw and brought ectos right down to 100g - thats a big chunk of ecto holders losing millions.What if they farmed ambraces and they fell to 100g ?
You can see my point and ask yourself - whats better a leech or bot ?

In terms of the whole game, a leecher is less destructive.
In terms of JQ, however, leecher is the worst thing that may happen to a team. A botter, even if using just a stupid, small macro to run forward into a portal and spam the first three skills (most often Troll Unguent, Heal Sig and so on), is doing more than a leecher - at least drawing attention, serving as a cannon fodder, so that maybe i can slip my RoJ through.
It still is harmful and should be reported, but yes - leechers are much, much worse than bots.

As for the OP. Just reporting leechers for botting is NOT enough to have them banned for botting.
However if there is a player that stays at the spawn point (an obvious leecher) that keeps on spamming some skills (setting Pain up there, spamming Troll Unguent on recharge, and so on) and this is 'caught on tape', preferably by more than one player, and sent to ANet, it is highly likely that said leecher/botter will get banned, even if not permanently.