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I know this is an old thread--but I have personally encountered the person who recorded this video on Malboro server. I can't say whether or not the person in the video was using minion, but I use it and have been victim to this 'bot hunter.' His method worked, whatever he did with timing the tradespam macro just as the mining was about to begin successfully caused minion to hang. And I thought I had too much time on my hands...

Should definitely be looked into.

For now your safest bet is to make sure you keep /busy up if you're going to be going AFK for extended periods of time, and hope that it doesn't get removed by a disconnect+relaunch.

If anyone ever does this to you, report them--trade spam harassment is a big deal and can get them into trouble