Ok first off if you're a TL;DR person you can stop here.
Secondly, I think this was completely unfair as i did ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong.
My Story:
Well it starts here on these forums about 2 weeks ago, I was reading a thread about bringing back free trade. So someone in that thread posted that it was taken away thanks to bots exploiting the RMAH and GAH.
This gave me an idea to see if these "bots" were still around and if so, how advanced they really were.
A quick google search gave me lots of options, so like always with google i went with the top choice.
I won't give out the site or bot name, but i went to the site registered an account and started to explore their forums. My plan was to download their bot client and see how it worked.
Well that turned out to be more work then i needed to do, the forums contained every single source for the bot client and the "scripts" or "profiles" it uses.
I could not believe they just put all that information out for public viewing, but there it was. I downloaded their client anyway (which i couldn't access since it uses a one off encrypted key) and looked at it's features.
I will say it was a well coded and simple client which uses .xml scripts to interact with D3 after being injected into the .exe on startup.
This is where the trouble starts, since i couldn't access the client and i wasn't gonna pay the high dollar amount they wanted for a key i went to their "developers" section of the forums, since everything the bot does is written by users and not the site that sells the bot... ( i know great business model, we make the software you provide the rest lol).
Thanks to their resources and my basic knowledge of coding i was able to hack and slash a "profile" together.
The forums contained a request section where users could ask for "profiles" that did specific task, such as farm "X" area or "X" boss.
The most request profile being one for Mal.... So i promptly released my profile to the public via their forums. I called it "Mal speed runs, Fast XP".
Now what the profile i made actually did was, Create a game, upon entering the game it would use the waypoint to teleport to act V.
Once the game loaded it opened the inventory screen and at super sonic speed, (2-3 seconds for all gear currently equipped) and salvage it all into crafting materials....
Now unless stopped by the user it would also access the stash box and proceed to drop/salvage anything in there as well.
So in the 48 hours my profile was up i have 68 hits, needless to say once people started to complain on the forums my profile was removed and i was banned!
NOWHERE in their rules did it specify the type of profile you could make and i am very upset by this... I just wanted to share this with the community since i am deeply upset by this complete and utter discrimination.