After I quit wow I played Rift and enjoyed it while I waited for gw2. It had its share of pros and cons, but the best thing that Trion did with this game is something guild wars should consider. It is how they handled bots and report.
While running around the world you would occasionally see a message on the map chat saying “so and so has been banned for botting” usually the person you saw getting banned was someone that no less then 5 minutes before you had reported. I have read your sticky thread that disappeared and was locked and it said that 1600 bots were banned in one week. In a 40 hour work week that’s only 40 per hour…. I could spot you more then 40 right now if you gave me 10 minutes in cursed shore on my server. What Trion showed is that they had an actually GM somewhere on the server and he would see the reports analyze the reported and spot that is a bot, because its not that hard to notice. As a player i knew it was being handled by the message, it really gave me a good opinion on the people running the game. Please consider what I have wrote and look at what other games have done, because this game has more bots then any retail game and even private servers I have played on.
Just to add I enjoy Guild Wars 2 more than any MMO I have played, I think that it is a worth while game to play and enjoy. I do believe you have your methods of dealing with bots and reporting, I just think that there are other methods you could look explore.
