Typing a single letter would show you’re not afk.
Don’t need to have a conversation with them. If you really don’t want to talk to them telling them to ■■■■ off will do just fine… Then again you might get reported for swearing at people for no reason.
Could even have it on copy and paste.
To be fair though if you do constantly ignore players causing them to have to report you each and every time just in case you are botting (even if you claim you’re not) could probably lead GM’s to take action against you wasting their time.
By saying I refuse to talk to people and only GM’s would mean if people begin to think you’re just an ignorant ■■■■, if as a result people neglect to report you you’d be able to get away with botting without reports to prevent this people will have to report you and thus waste the GM’s time.
Think they should put a rule in place where if they get X amount of reports however evidently aren’t botting due to always responding to the GM then they should face the same punishment as if they were botting.